girls:
1.4k births since 1975
#4362 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1975
#6379 (18th percentile)
The name Emilly is the #6,379 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,364 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 17.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,362 (23.7% percentile) for all time with 1,364 births since 1975.
Emilly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for girls in 1975). Birth data for Emilly is available in 46 out of the 49 years between 1975 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, Emilly reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #843) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 34 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Emilly ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 46.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emilly".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Emilly. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.3% confident that Emilly is pronounced as EH-mih-lee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-muh-lee, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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