Emelina
Feminine · “work”
Emelina is Emeline with a Spanish ending, and the -ina is doing real work: Spanish uses it to make a name smaller and dearer, the way English once used -kin. The name underneath is Frankish and considerably older than either language.
How old is the name Emelina?
Emelina first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Emelina is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Emelina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emelina most popular?
Emelina peaked in 2025, reaching #2859 nationally. Today it ranks #2859, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Amalina to Emelina
The story of Emelina
Amalina was a Frankish woman's name that Norman French shortened to Ameline and English took as Emeline. Spanish and Portuguese, which love a diminutive ending, built Emelina from the same stock — and Spanish naming has produced a whole family this way: Marcelina, Carolina, Josefina, Angelina. Emelina reaches United States records with Spanish-speaking families and, more thinly, with families who met the English Emeline first and preferred the softer ending.
Meaning
work, labor — through the Germanic amal
The root is Germanic amal, which means work or vigorous effort, and it stands behind Amalia, Amelia, Ameline and Emeline. The -ina ending is a Latin and Spanish diminutive suffix, the same one in Carolina and Marcelina. The name has nothing to do with Emilia, which comes from the Roman Aemilius, though the two are constantly treated as one.
How the name formed
- Amalina
- Ameline
- Emeline
- Emelina
Related forms: Emeline · Emelina · Amalina · Amelina
Pronouncing Emelina
eh-meh-LEE-nah
Four syllables with the stress on the third, following Spanish. English speakers say EM-uh-lee-nuh, moving the stress to the front and reducing the vowels, which changes the shape noticeably.
Nicknames for Emelina
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 202559 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2859reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +43.9%59 in 2025, from 41
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Emelina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emeline in English — related form
- Emelina in Spanish — same name
- Amalina in German — related form
- Amelina in Italian — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Emelinas among us
people named Emelina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 27,242 born in 2025 was named Emelina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Emelina
- #2859
- Emelina on the 2025 chart
- #894
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Emelina went to 59 girls in 2025, but Emmelina is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 66, which makes it the 894th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,965 places above the chart.
- Emelina59
- Emmelina7
About 1 girl in 24,353 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 27,242 for Emelina itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shylo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emelina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shylo climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shylo's path sketches the road Emelina is walking now.
Emelina sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Emelina is headed
Emelina looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 19% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Emelina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emelina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Germanic root with a long and continuous record in several languages.
- Lina and Emmy are two ready short forms in different languages.
- Four syllables give it real formality, with everyday forms available underneath.
- It is constantly confused with Emilia, which comes from an entirely unrelated Roman name.
- The stress falls differently in Spanish and English, so the child will hear two versions.
- Emelina, Emelyna and Emmelina all circulate and none is dominant.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emelinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Emelina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Emelina?
- Emelina is the most-used spelling in US records — 59 of the 66 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Emmelina.
- How popular is the name Emelina in 2025?
- Emelina ranks #2859 among US girl names in 2025, with 59 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emelina?
- About 1 in every 27,242 US girls born in 2025 was named Emelina — 59 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emelina with classmates?
- Emelina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Emelina
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