Emeline

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Emeline is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 77 births. Its best rank was 482nd, in 1886.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 770.00% of girls
Peak year: 2016104 births
Best rank: #482in 1886
Since 1880: 3,550people given the name

Babies named Emeline, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

3,550 girls have been named Emeline in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 104 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2010s alone account for 25%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Emeline
1880s	132
1890s	160
1900s	161
1910s	353
1920s	257
1930s	125
1940s	71
1950s	75
1960s	69
1970s	72
1980s	96
1990s	252
2000s	511
2010s	875
2020s	341

In 2016, its biggest year

Emeline was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Emeline

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Emmeline5,864 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.