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Emmylou

#2,283 in 2025Girls' name

Combination of Emmy and Lou

Emmylou has been given to 1,274 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #2,283 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Emmylou, 2025

1 in 41,400

Emmylou over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmylou: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Emmy and Lou

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emmylou means

Emmylou is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Emmylou is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɛm.i.ˈlu/ for Emmylou.

The naming story behind Emmylou

The reference identifies Emmylou as a combination of Emmy and Lou. This is a documented two-name formation.

The histories of Emmy and Lou belong to their separate source entries. The source does not identify every bearer’s family motivation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emmy and Lou.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,274 girls were recorded with the name Emmylou between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 94 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,049 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,264 in 2020 to #2,283 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,595 in 2015 to #2,283 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Emmylou?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 41,400
80 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,283
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,725 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmylou sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,725 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmylou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmylous were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmylou was born before 2017 — so the typical Emmylou is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,269
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Choose a decade

2010s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (558).

Is Emmylou rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+285
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−19
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+312
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.1%
Peak was 2021 (94)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,049
2021

Where Emmylou is used

Across 2016–2025, Emmylou was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 30,106 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 16,667
  2. 2Washington1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 25,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 25,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Emmylou around the world

Where Emmylou ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1984–2025
    #7,454
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Emmylou by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,283
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 19
Best rank ever
#2,049
2021
Peak year
2021
94 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,274
Count in 2025
80

Names similar to Emmylou

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Emmylou

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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