Emonie
Feminine
Emonie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,031 girls against 14 boys since 1880.
Emonie belongs to a set of American women's names built on a soft ending that sounds French and is not: Harmonie, Simone, Emonie, Ramonie. What they share is a final syllable carrying the stress and a shape that reads as elegant on paper. This one puts a single vowel in front of that ending, which is the leanest way into the family.
How old is the name Emonie?
Emonie first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Emonie alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,000 people named Emonie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emonie most popular?
Emonie peaked in 1995, reaching #2735 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 10,473 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Emonie
American naming in the last decades of the twentieth century made steady use of endings that carry the stress: -onie, -ique, -elle, -ay. Their appeal is legible — English usually puts the weight at the front of a word, so a name that pushes it to the back sounds distinctly not-plain. Emonie appears in the record from the 1990s and is concentrated in the Midwest. It is a recent name with a recent history, which is a real history even though no dictionary carries it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No derivation is documented. The name resembles Harmony, from the Greek harmonia — a fitting-together, and the name of a goddess in the myth of Thebes — and it resembles Simone, the French feminine of Simon. Neither resemblance is a descent, and the honest position is that the name was built from a sound that was widely admired when it appeared.
Pronouncing Emonie
eh-MOH-nee
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Some families put it at the back, eh-moh-NEE, following the French shape the ending imitates; both are heard.
Nicknames for Emonie
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
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 200552 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2735reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- −66.7%6 in 2025, from 18
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.
Emonie in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois.
Emonies among us
people named Emonie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Emonie
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 Sharline test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emonie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sharline climbed just as high around 1937, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sharline's path sketches the road Emonie is walking now.
Emonie 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
Emonie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emonie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Emme is available and is one of the most current short forms in American use.
- Three open syllables with no hard consonant anywhere in the name.
- It sits well after long or consonant-heavy surnames.
- Emoni, Emonee and Imonie all compete, so the spelling has to be dictated.
- The stress is unsettled between the middle and the back.
- There is no documented meaning, only an account of the ending it belongs to.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emonies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Emonie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Emonie in 2025?
- Emonie ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emonie?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Emonie — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emonie with classmates?
- Emonie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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