How rare is the name Emmy?

9,880 people in the United States have the first name Emmy, about 1 in 30,570. It ranks #2,487 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EMMY

#2,487

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,880
About
1 in 30,570
This common or more
79.9%
Who bears it

Of the 9,880 people named Emmy, 64.5% reported their origin as White, 19.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 9.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 99% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Emmy peaked in 2025, when 695 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18852025
Peak year
2025
Births that year
695
In 2025*
695
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,963 babies have been given the name since 1885. 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.

Emmy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #990. The largest share of babies named Emmy, 56.3%, were born in 2013 or later.

1880s#2,52813
1890s#2,29743
1900s#2,82344
1910s#3,087160
1920s#2,601312
1930s#3,138196
1940s#3,413197
1950s#3,712224
1960s#4,995158
1970s#3,442391
1980s#3,299528
1990s#4,036544
2000s#2,1681,846
2010s#1,2234,541
2020s#9903,766
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–273.4%
Silent Generation 1928–452.9%
Baby boom 1946–643.1%
Generation X 1965–804.2%
Millennials 1981–966.1%
Generation Z 1997–1223.5%
2013 and later56.3%

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 Emmy is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Emmy has been most common in Utah (4×), Arizona (1.9×), and Florida (1.6×), and least common in Mississippi (0.44×).

9,433 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 Emmy

#2,485 Yang · 9,900#2,486 Rowena · 9,883#2,488 Hal · 9,875#2,489 Emersyn · 9,870

Spelled almost the same

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

#86 Emma · 498,221#5,221 Emme · 3,329#7,565 Emy · 2,006#8,002 Emmi · 1,841#23,505 Emm · 416

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