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Emy

#2,728 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Emma

Emy has been given to 1,497 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #2,728 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Emy, 2025

1 in 52,600

Emy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Emma

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emy means

Emy is a diminutive of Emma.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emma.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,497 girls were recorded with the name Emy between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,675 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,860 in 2020 to #2,728 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,017 in 2015 to #2,728 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 Emy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 52,600
63 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,728
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
36,476 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emy 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 36,476 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emy was born before 2009 — so the typical Emy is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,418
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Choose a decade

2010s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (370).

Is Emy 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
−53
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+132
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,289
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.9%
Peak was 2024 (65)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,675
2024

Where Emy is used

Across 1910–2025, Emy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 192,835 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —

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. Emy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emy around the world

Where Emy 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
    1997–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #48
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #772
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1969–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Emy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,728
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 132
Best rank ever
#2,675
2024
Peak year
2024
65 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,497
Count in 2025
63

Names similar to Emy

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

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Sibling names for Emy

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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