How Many People Are Named Emmy?
people named Emmy are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 28,510 people in the US has this name
Based on 12,963 babies named Emmy in Social Security records from 1885 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
695 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of EMMA or EMILY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Emmy in English. Counting Emmy and these spellings together, about 19,566 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Emmy in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Emmy alive today is about 15 years old, and 86% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 18 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Emmy first appears in the records in 1885, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 695 babies.
Babies given the name each year, 1885 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Emmy has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #445, in 2025. In 2025 it ranked #445.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #445 |
| Best rank | #445 (2025) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #634 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Emmy alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Emmy were born in California than in any other state: about 1,459 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Emmy was given 2.7 times as often in Utah, 1.6 times in Minnesota and 1.5 times in Louisiana.
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