Emmy Girl
How popular is Emmy?
#445 girl name in 2025
695 baby girls were named Emmy in the US in 2025, making it the 445th most popular girl name.
Emmy popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #445 for girls (▲ 8 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 695 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+49% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #618 in 2015, #517 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2025 (695 girls) |
| Highest rank | #445 in 2025 |
| First recorded | 1885 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.5% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Emmy counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Emmy family of names ranked #209 for girls in 2025 (#220 the year before), with 1,608 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Emmy is most popular
Babies named Emmy per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Nebraska: 0.9 per 1,000 (34 girls)
- Utah: 0.9 per 1,000 (77 girls)
- North Dakota: 0.8 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Minnesota: 0.7 per 1,000 (80 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.7 per 1,000 (61 girls)
Emmy by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 13 | #793 |
| 1890s | 43 | #1,098 |
| 1900s | 44 | #1,170 |
| 1910s | 160 | #1,405 |
| 1920s | 312 | #1,213 |
| 1930s | 196 | #1,393 |
| 1940s | 197 | #1,696 |
| 1950s | 224 | #1,737 |
| 1960s | 158 | #2,728 |
| 1970s | 391 | #1,596 |
| 1980s | 528 | #1,373 |
| 1990s | 544 | #2,035 |
| 2000s | 1,846 | #917 |
| 2010s | 4,541 | #490 |
| 2020s | 3,766 | #445 |
Girl names about as popular as Emmy
Questions
- Is Emmy a boy or girl name?
- Emmy is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Emmy were girls.
- How popular is the name Emmy?
- 695 baby girls were named Emmy in the US in 2025, making it the 445th most popular girl name.
- When was Emmy most popular?
- Emmy peaked in 2025, when 695 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #445 in 2025.
- How many people are named Emmy?
- 12,963 babies have been named Emmy in the US since 1880. We estimate about 12,031 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Emmy most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Emmy was most common in Nebraska, at 0.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.