Emaline

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Emaline is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 50 births. Its best rank was 915th, in 1888.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 500.00% of girls
Peak year: 201673 births
Best rank: #915in 1888
Since 1885: 1,873people given the name

Babies named Emaline, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

1,873 girls have been named Emaline in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 73 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2010s alone account for 29%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Emaline
1880s	30
1890s	46
1900s	91
1910s	230
1920s	218
1930s	103
1940s	31
1950s	18
1960s	5
1980s	5
1990s	68
2000s	267
2010s	539
2020s	222

In 2016, its biggest year

Emaline was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Emaline

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Emmaline7,238 ever

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.