Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: GermanEmily is a feminine given name derived from the Roman family name "Aemilius", and is the feminine form of the name Emil.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Emily yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
892,769 total US births make Emily one of the largest names in this dataset, on par with Joseph or Matthew from earlier batches. It was the #1 girls' name for a long run through the late 1990s, its rank peaking in 1996 and its raw count peaking three years later at 26,542 births in 1999.
The fall since has been steep: 5,955 births in 2024, 53% under its count from ten years earlier, landing at #25 — a sharper drop than most names that once held the top spot.
Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë give the name serious 19th-century literary weight, while Emily Blunt keeps it current — a spread across two centuries that few names still in the top 30 can claim.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 210 | #100 |
| 1881 | 244 | #90 |
| 1882 | 272 | #95 |
| 1883 | 342 | #81 |
| 1884 | 364 | #81 |
| 1885 | 346 | #87 |
| 1886 | 369 | #93 |
| 1887 | 335 | #98 |
| 1888 | 457 | #90 |
| 1889 | 429 | #93 |
| 1890 | 509 | #86 |
| 1891 | 444 | #95 |
| 1892 | 518 | #94 |
| 1893 | 506 | #95 |
| 1894 | 551 | #93 |
| 1895 | 605 | #89 |
| 1896 | 527 | #96 |
| 1897 | 619 | #88 |
| 1898 | 628 | #94 |
| 1899 | 569 | #96 |
| 1900 | 626 | #105 |
| 1901 | 537 | #99 |
| 1902 | 606 | #97 |
| 1903 | 558 | #101 |
| 1904 | 599 | #103 |
| 1905 | 683 | #100 |
| 1906 | 619 | #104 |
| 1907 | 714 | #100 |
| 1908 | 732 | #103 |
| 1909 | 749 | #103 |
| 1910 | 785 | #110 |
| 1911 | 909 | #103 |
| 1912 | 1,147 | #105 |
| 1913 | 1,386 | #99 |
| 1914 | 1,650 | #98 |
| 1915 | 2,091 | #99 |
| 1916 | 2,213 | #100 |
| 1917 | 2,220 | #103 |
| 1918 | 2,361 | #105 |
| 1919 | 2,307 | #105 |
| 1920 | 2,168 | #119 |
| 1921 | 2,184 | #121 |
| 1922 | 2,146 | #121 |
| 1923 | 2,057 | #128 |
| 1924 | 2,044 | #136 |
| 1925 | 1,767 | #145 |
| 1926 | 1,729 | #142 |
| 1927 | 1,656 | #146 |
| 1928 | 1,559 | #150 |
| 1929 | 1,444 | #151 |
| 1930 | 1,344 | #154 |
| 1931 | 1,186 | #159 |
| 1932 | 1,147 | #168 |
| 1933 | 1,062 | #171 |
| 1934 | 1,067 | #175 |
| 1935 | 1,094 | #173 |
| 1936 | 1,123 | #171 |
| 1937 | 1,293 | #161 |
| 1938 | 1,308 | #164 |
| 1939 | 1,292 | #163 |
| 1940 | 1,269 | #164 |
| 1941 | 1,368 | #162 |
| 1942 | 1,419 | #164 |
| 1943 | 1,336 | #175 |
| 1944 | 1,251 | #170 |
| 1945 | 1,134 | #181 |
| 1946 | 1,379 | #186 |
| 1947 | 1,470 | #187 |
| 1948 | 1,391 | #194 |
| 1949 | 1,392 | #196 |
| 1950 | 1,316 | #203 |
| 1951 | 1,287 | #212 |
| 1952 | 1,392 | #207 |
| 1953 | 1,325 | #220 |
| 1954 | 1,342 | #218 |
| 1955 | 1,303 | #223 |
| 1956 | 1,282 | #230 |
| 1957 | 1,207 | #246 |
| 1958 | 1,172 | #254 |
| 1959 | 1,214 | #250 |
| 1960 | 1,226 | #250 |
| 1961 | 1,146 | #265 |
| 1962 | 1,079 | #273 |
| 1963 | 1,108 | #269 |
| 1964 | 1,131 | #268 |
| 1965 | 1,288 | #238 |
| 1966 | 1,249 | #237 |
| 1967 | 1,205 | #239 |
| 1968 | 1,326 | #225 |
| 1969 | 1,576 | #198 |
| 1970 | 1,931 | #173 |
| 1971 | 1,866 | #166 |
| 1972 | 2,334 | #131 |
| 1973 | 3,027 | #99 |
| 1974 | 4,330 | #69 |
| 1975 | 5,483 | #48 |
| 1976 | 5,549 | #50 |
| 1977 | 6,879 | #37 |
| 1978 | 7,473 | #33 |
| 1979 | 7,971 | #34 |
| 1980 | 9,002 | #31 |
| 1981 | 10,799 | #29 |
| 1982 | 12,521 | #24 |
| 1983 | 12,377 | #25 |
| 1984 | 12,786 | #24 |
| 1985 | 13,143 | #24 |
| 1986 | 13,236 | #24 |
| 1987 | 14,711 | #19 |
| 1988 | 15,871 | #18 |
| 1989 | 17,324 | #13 |
| 1990 | 19,368 | #12 |
| 1991 | 20,311 | #10 |
| 1992 | 21,834 | #7 |
| 1993 | 23,596 | #5 |
| 1994 | 24,153 | #3 |
| 1995 | 24,383 | #3 |
| 1996 | 25,150 | #1 |
| 1997 | 25,735 | #1 |
| 1998 | 26,188 | #1 |
| 1999 | 26,542 | #1 |
| 2000 | 25,959 | #1 |
| 2001 | 25,059 | #1 |
| 2002 | 24,469 | #1 |
| 2003 | 25,693 | #1 |
| 2004 | 25,041 | #1 |
| 2005 | 23,950 | #1 |
| 2006 | 21,411 | #1 |
| 2007 | 19,366 | #1 |
| 2008 | 17,445 | #3 |
| 2009 | 15,362 | #6 |
| 2010 | 14,281 | #6 |
| 2011 | 14,277 | #6 |
| 2012 | 13,664 | #6 |
| 2013 | 13,142 | #7 |
| 2014 | 12,667 | #7 |
| 2015 | 11,806 | #8 |
| 2016 | 11,004 | #9 |
| 2017 | 9,813 | #12 |
| 2018 | 8,716 | #12 |
| 2019 | 8,256 | #12 |
| 2020 | 6,914 | #18 |
| 2021 | 6,591 | #21 |
| 2022 | 6,495 | #17 |
| 2023 | 6,172 | #19 |
| 2024 | 5,955 | #25 |
