girls:
11.6k births since 1885
#1461 (74th percentile)
overall:
11.6k births since 1885
#2453 (68th percentile)
The name Emmy is the #2,453 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,567 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 68.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,461 (74.4% percentile) for all time with 11,567 births since 1885.
Emmy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (first recorded for girls in 1885). Birth data for Emmy is available in 128 out of the 139 years between 1885 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, Emmy reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 54.0% percentile (ranked #435) with 349 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 349 births per million (ranked 54.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1990, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Emmy is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #449 (52.6% percentile) with 342 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emmy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Emmy is pronounced as EH-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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