girls:
1.4k births since 1916
#4357 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1916
#6374 (18th percentile)
The name Emy is the #6,374 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,369 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 17.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,357 (23.8% percentile) for all time with 1,369 births since 1916.
Emy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (first recorded for girls in 1916). Birth data for Emy is available in 76 out of the 108 years between 1916 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, Emy reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #888) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 32 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Emy ranks #899 for girls (5.1% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 94.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emy".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Emy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.2% confident that Emy is pronounced as EH-mee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-mee, at 36.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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