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Emberleigh vs Emberlynn

American parents have registered 2,961 Emberlynns since 1880, against 1,046 Emberleighs. Emberlynn is still ahead, with 281 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emberleigh 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

Emberlynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2003 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Emberleigh had 124 and Emberlynn had 183.

Side by side

  Emberleigh Emberlynn
Total US births 1,0462,961
Most in one year 125354
Babies in 2025 108281
Estimated living today 1,0002,900
Median age today 44
Peak year 20232023
Best rank 1,656th girls797th girls
Rank in 2025 1,844th928th
First recorded 20092003
Girls / boys 1,046 / 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: Emberleigh and Emberlynn.