girls:
453 births since 1954
#5263 (8th percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1923
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
463 births since 1923
#7276 (6th percentile)
The name Emlyn is the #7,276 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 463 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 6.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,263 (7.9% percentile) for all time with 453 births since 1954. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1923.
Emlyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (1923 for boys and 1954 for girls). Birth data for Emlyn is available in 37 out of the 101 years between 1923 and 2023 (36 years for girls and 2 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 Emlyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 80.0% of babies named Emlyn were girls. Interestingly, until around 1954, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1923 to 1953), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (98.9% girls from 1954 to 2023).
For girls, Emlyn reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #929) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Emlyn ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 57.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Emlyn reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #551) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Currently, Emlyn ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 61.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emlyn".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Emlyn.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Emlyn", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Emlyn.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Emlyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.8% confident that Emlyn is pronounced as EHM-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ihm-LIHN, at 16.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Emlyn? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Emlyn. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Emlyn, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 M L IH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker