Emily is an extremely popular girls' name in United States, ranking #1 in 1996 with 25,150 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 1999 with 26,542 births ranking #1. In 1996, approximately 1 in every 70 girls born was named Emily. FALLING Recent data shows the name is currently falling.
Emily is a major enduring classic often linked with striving or rivalry. It feels warm, familiar, and effortlessly established.
The name became one of the defining girls' names of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries but has much older roots in English literary and social history. Its success comes from softness, simplicity, and reliability.