girls:
3.8k births since 1918
#2805 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1918
#4468 (42nd percentile)
The name Emalee is the #4,468 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,783 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 42.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,805 (50.9% percentile) for all time with 3,783 births since 1918.
Emalee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for girls in 1918). Birth data for Emalee is available in 58 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Emalee reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 24.5% percentile (ranked #709) with 116 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 116 births per million (ranked 24.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Emalee ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 9.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emalee".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Emalee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Emalee is pronounced as EH-muh-lee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-muh-LEE, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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