Emily
Emily is ranked 25th among girls in 2024 (5,955 births). It was the number one girl’s name in 1996–2007.
- Rank in 2024
- #25down 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5,9550.37% of girls
- Peak year
- 199926,542 births
- Best rank
- #1first in 1996
- Since 1880
- 892,769people given the name
The story in the numbers
890,970 girls have been named Emily in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 26,542 births — 1.5% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 7 → 25).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 27%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 80 of them in the top 100 and 26 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,799 boys have also been given it, 0.20% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Emily | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,368 | |
| 1890s | 5,476 | |
| 1900s | 6,423 | |
| 1910s | 17,069 | |
| 1920s | 18,754 | |
| 1930s | 11,916 | |
| 1940s | 13,409 | |
| 1950s | 12,840 | |
| 1960s | 12,334 | |
| 1970s | 46,843 | |
| 1980s | 131,770 | |
| 1990s | 237,260 | |
| 2000s | 223,755 | |
| 2010s | 117,626 | |
| 2020s | 32,127 |
In 1999, its biggest year
Emily was the most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1999 were Emily, Hannah, Alexis, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Emily
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fabiolapeak 1995
- Clarissapeak 1995
- Christianapeak 1996
- Indiapeak 2001
- Tesspeak 1992
- Carolinapeak 2004
- Annahpeak 2001
- Erynpeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
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.