girls:
264 births since 1913
#5452 (5th percentile)
overall:
264 births since 1913
#7475 (3rd percentile)
The name Emmalou is the #7,475 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 264 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,452 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 264 births since 1913.
Emmalou first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for girls in 1913). Birth data for Emmalou is available in 33 out of the 111 years between 1913 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, Emmalou reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #957) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Emmalou ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 25.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emmalou".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Emmalou. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.7% confident that Emmalou is pronounced as EH-muh-LUE, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-muh-lue, at 43.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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