Emilee
Feminine · “rival”
Emilee is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 24,019 girls against 8 boys since 1880.
Emilee is Emily with an American ending, and Emily descends from a Roman family name that built a road still crossing northern Italy — the Via Aemilia.
How old is the name Emilee?
Emilee first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Emilee alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 23,500 people named Emilee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emilee most popular?
Emilee peaked in 2003, reaching #304 nationally. Today it ranks #1867, 1,563 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Aemilius to Emilee
The story of Emilee
Aemilia was a Roman family name, and it reached English through the medieval Emilia and then Emily — Chaucer has an Emelye, and the name became a Victorian staple. It rose extraordinarily in twentieth-century America, standing at number one for a decade. The respellings followed, and Emilee peaked in the late 1990s.
Meaningscholars disagree
rival, emulating
From the Roman family name Aemilius, generally connected to the Latin aemulus, 'rival' or 'emulating'. Like many gens names it may be Etruscan and the Latin reading a reinterpretation. The Aemilii were a major patrician house and gave Emilia-Romagna its name.
How the name formed
- Aemilius
- Emilia
- Emily
- Emilee
Related forms: Emily · Emilia · Émilie · Emilia
Pronouncing Emilee
EM-uh-lee
Three syllables, stress on the first. Emilee and Emily are said identically.
Nicknames for Emilee
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
- 1916
- Most girls named
- 20041,017 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #304reached in 2003
- Change vs 2023
- −22.1%106 in 2025, from 136
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.
Emilee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emily in English — spelling variant
- Emilia in Italian — related form
- Émilie in French — related form
- Emilia in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Emilees among us
people named Emilee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,163 born in 2025 was named Emilee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Carey test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emilee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carey climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carey's path sketches the road Emilee is walking now.
Emilee 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 Emilee is headed
Emilee is easing off slowly — about 28% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Emilee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emilee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Roman patrician house stands behind it, with a road still bearing the name.
- Em and Millie are two short forms, both of them currently fashionable.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- Emily is overwhelmingly the standard spelling and will be assumed.
- The Latin meaning may be a reinterpretation of an Etruscan name.
- It is closely dated to the 1990s in this spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emilees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 23,500 people named Emilee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Emilee in 2025?
- Emilee ranks #1867 among US girl names in 2025, with 106 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emilee?
- About 1 in every 15,163 US girls born in 2025 was named Emilee — 106 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emilee with classmates?
- Emilee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Emilee
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