girls:
23.8k births since 1916
#923 (84th percentile)
boys:
8 births since 2004
#4578 (0th percentile)
overall:
23.8k births since 1916
#1646 (79th percentile)
The name Emilee is the #1,646 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,792 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 78.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #923 (83.9% percentile) for all time with 23,784 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,578 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 8 births since 2004.
Emilee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Emilee is available in 100 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (100 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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.
The name Emilee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Emilee reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 68.4% percentile (ranked #287) with 508 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 508 births per million (ranked 68.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Emilee ranks #816 for girls (13.8% percentile) with 78 births per million, which is 15.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Emilee reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #844) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emilee".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Emilee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.8% confident that Emilee is pronounced as EH-mih-lee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-muh-lee, at 27.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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