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Emberlyn vs Emberlynn

American parents have registered 2,961 Emberlynns since 1880, against 2,196 Emberlyns. Emberlynn is still ahead, with 281 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emberlyn against Emberlynn, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emberlyn Emberlynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 23 years in which either name was published, Emberlynn for 22 years and Emberlyn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Emberlyn Emberlynn
Total US births 2,1962,961
Most in one year 238354
Babies in 2025 169281
Estimated living today 2,2002,900
Median age today 54
Peak year 20212023
Best rank 1,058th girls797th girls
Rank in 2025 1,318th928th
First recorded 20032003
Girls / boys 2,196 / 02,961 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emberlyn and Emberlynn.