girl's name

Emmalee

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 7
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 9,815

Emmalee is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 47 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2005, when 441 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 70,542 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1909.

Emmalee over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1900s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

3,596
'00 '10 '20 '30 '40 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Emmalee by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1900s 7
1910s 57
1920s 87
1930s 43
1940s 35
1960s 11
1970s 83
1980s 352
1990s 1,340
2000s 3,596
2010s 2,846
2020s (to 2025) 551

How popular is Emmalee?

In 2025, Emmalee was given to 47 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Emmalee is used

United States #3,313 47 in 2025
Canada as Emma-Lee #3,431 5 in 2023
England & Wales as Emma-Lee #6,086 3 in 2011

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Emmalee is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Emma-Lee Emma-Lee is Emmalee written with a hyphen, recorded mostly in Canada. 458

Names that peaked alongside Emmalee

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Emmalee also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Emmalee over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Emmalee

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Emmalee — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Emmalee

How popular is the name Emmalee?

In 2025, Emmalee was given to 47 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Emmalee a girl's or a boy's name?

Emmalee is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Emmalee most popular?

Emmalee peaked in 2005, when 441 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.

Is Emmalee a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Emmalee currently ranks #3,313 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.