Emmeline

What Emmeline means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Emmeline yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #810 in 2015 to #922 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Emmeline?

US: Falling: down from #810 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #395 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 370 girls got the name (#753 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 5,659 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,753 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ID (0.7 per 1,000 girls), UT (0.59 per 1,000 girls), CO (0.56 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Emmeline is #922 in the US and #436 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Emmeline were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Emmaline182 US
• Emeline62 US · 5 E&W
• Emmelyn46 US · 4 E&W
• Emaline28 US
• Emelin14 US
• Emiline13 US
• Emmilene12 US
• Emmalin9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Emmeline

Girls

• Willa#422Editor’s note Up from #480 in 2015 to #422 in 2025 in the US
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Zelda#832Editor’s note Down from #648 in 2015 to #832 in 2025 in the US
• Evelina#778Editor’s note Up from #1,354 in 2015 to #778 in 2025 in the US
• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*

For a brother

• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Emmeline’s. Rank is US 2025.