How rare is the name Emmalyn?

6,464 people in the United States have the first name Emmalyn, about 1 in 46,725. It ranks #3,299 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EMMALYN

#3,299

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,464
About
1 in 46,725
This common or more
82.1%
Who bears it

Of the 6,464 people named Emmalyn, 77.9% reported their origin as White, 10.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Emmalyn peaked in 2015, when 693 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19462025
Peak year
2015
Births that year
693
In 2025*
204 ▼71%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,847 babies have been given the name since 1946. 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.

Emmalyn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,013. The largest share of babies named Emmalyn, 69.9%, were born in 2013 or later.

1940s#10,47012
1980s#17,52832
1990s#7,930206
2000s#3,578904
2010s#1,0135,948
2020s#1,7251,745
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Millennials 1981–961.4%
Generation Z 1997–1228.5%
2013 and later69.9%

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 Emmalyn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Emmalyn has been most common in Arizona (1.9×), Washington (1.7×), and Tennessee (1.7×), and least common in New York (0.36×).

7,508 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.

Either side of Emmalyn

#3,297 Leonidas · 6,476#3,298 Zac · 6,471#3,300 Leandra · 6,462#3,301 Germaine · 6,459

Spelled almost the same

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

#4,096 Emmaline · 4,710#5,450 Emmalynn · 3,153#6,498 Emelyn · 2,461#9,181 Emalyn · 1,534#9,889 Emilyn · 1,376#18,652 Emlyn · 576#20,595 Emmelyn · 500#23,382 Emmalina · 419

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