How Many People Are Named Emely?

23,602

people named Emely are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 14,481 people in the US has this name

Based on 23,880 babies named Emely in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,470

πŸ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#784

See the top 100

Peak Year

2008

1,092 births

Trend

β†’

Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: EM-Ι™-lee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of EMILY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Emely in English. Counting Emely and these spellings together, about 861,713 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Emely (99.9%) were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Emely alive today is about 16 years old, and 94% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 21 in 2025.

Under 30 22,232
94.2%
30 to 59 1,324
5.6%
60 and over 46
0.2%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Emely first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 2008, to 1,092 babies. In 2025, 590 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Emely has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #298, in 2005. In 2025 it ranked #503.

Girls
Rank in 2025#503
Best rank#298 (2005)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#343 in the 2000s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Emely alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Emely were born in California than in any other state: about 5,690 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Emely was given 4 times as often in District of Columbia, 2.2 times in Maryland and 2.1 times in New York.

California 5,690
New York 2,983
Texas 2,866
Florida 1,623
New Jersey 1,184
Virginia 825
Maryland 791
Illinois 728
Georgia 638
North Carolina 604
Massachusetts 483
Arizona 429
Tennessee 315
Nevada 299
Washington 250
Colorado 249
Pennsylvania 246
District of Columbia 196
Connecticut 190
Louisiana 177
South Carolina 127
Oregon 124
Indiana 122
Alabama 99
Utah 95
Ohio 95
Minnesota 91
Oklahoma 88
Rhode Island 76
Michigan 54
Kentucky 52
Arkansas 50
Nebraska 48
Wisconsin 44
Kansas 40
New Mexico 32
Iowa 31
Missouri 29
Delaware 16
South Dakota 5
Mississippi 5

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