How rare is the name Emilie?

20,479 people in the United States have the first name Emilie, about 1 in 14,748. It ranks #1,577 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EMILIE

#1,577

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
20,479
About
1 in 14,748
This common or more
75.7%
Who bears it

Of the 20,479 people named Emilie, 77.4% reported their origin as White, 11.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Emilie peaked in 2003, when 660 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2003
Births that year
660
In 2025*
170 ▼74%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 26,661 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Emilie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #476. The largest share of babies named Emilie, 31.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#476553
1890s#518759
1900s#730532
1910s#9591,212
1920s#1,1471,329
1930s#1,1861,073
1940s#1,3331,092
1950s#1,947748
1960s#2,453553
1970s#1,7161,267
1980s#1,2142,653
1990s#9984,624
2000s#9655,742
2010s#1,5023,441
2020s#2,3921,083
Before 19015.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2710.7%
Silent Generation 1928–457.4%
Baby boom 1946–645.2%
Generation X 1965–806.6%
Millennials 1981–9620.6%
Generation Z 1997–1231.7%
2013 and later12.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Emilie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Emilie has been most common in Utah (1.7×), Florida (1.4×), and Wisconsin (1.3×), and least common in Mississippi (0.14×).

19,474 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Emilie, most common first.

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