Emily is a highly popular girls' name in United States, ranking #34 in 2025 with 5,451 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 1999 with 26,542 births ranking #1. Since 1996, the popularity has decreased by 78.3%. In 2025, approximately 1 in every 295 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.