Girls' name · peaked in 2003

Emilee name popularity since 1925

23,943 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Emilee. Half of them were born in 2002 or earlier, so the typical Emilee is about 24 years old in 2026. Emilee peaked in 2003 as the #304 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 23,943; Named Emilee, 1925–2025
Peak year: 2003; #304 for girls that year
Typical age: About 24; Median birth year 2002
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #1,867 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 100.0% girls; 23,935 girls · 8 boys
Most popular in: Utah; 3.75× its national share

Peak year is the year Emilee made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Emilee births per year, 1925–2025

2003 was the biggest year for Emilee both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1986 and 1991, Emilee became 2.1× more common, from 1 in 9,130 baby girls to 1 in 4,310.
Steepest fall: Between 2018 and 2023, its share of baby girls fell by 59%, from 1 in 4,790 to 1 in 11,800.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Emilee's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Emilee.

Decade by decade

Babies named Emilee in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	6	0	–
1930s	73	0	#3,898
1940s	89	0	#3,774
1950s	68	0	#6,115
1960s	67	0	#6,013
1970s	509	0	#1,385
1980s	2,049	0	#823
1990s	6,574	0	#367
2000s	8,817	8	#334
2010s	4,727	0	#586
2020–25	956	0	#1,867

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

55.0% of babies named Emilee from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:

Where Emilee is most popular

The index compares Emilee's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Emilee.

State	Index	Babies
Utah	3.75×	695
Kentucky	1.87×	684
West Virginia	1.82×	348
Tennessee	1.61×	739
Oregon	1.58×	323

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Emilee and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Emilee (this page)	23,935	2003
Emily	853,552	1999
Emilie	22,774	1880
Emalee	3,784	2005
Emili	1,923	2006
Emiley	1,761	2005
Emilly	1,462	2003

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Emilee's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Emilee.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Emilee (2003).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data