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Emberlee

Girl · EM-ber-lee · Modern

Emberlee is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “glowing coal + meadow”. In 2025 it ranked 1,570th for girls in the US (134 babies).

What does Emberlee mean?

Modern: Ember combined with the ending -lee

“glowing coal + meadow”

Built from the English word ember and the ending -lee, from Old English leah, 'clearing, meadow'.

Say it
EM-ber-lee

Is Emberlee a girl's or a boy's name?

Emberlee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 134 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Emberlee in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,570among girls
Babies in 2025
134about 1 in 12,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 18% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 134 girls in the US were named Emberlee, making it the 1,570th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,177th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 197 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Emberlee than any year since 2016.

Half of all the girls named Emberlee in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 687 girls in the US were given Emberlee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #463, up from #1,570 for this spelling alone.

2002Busiest: 197 in 20202025
Emberlee in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025134#1,570
2024157#1,420
2023158#1,415
2022182#1,295
2021189#1,242
2020197#1,177
2019182#1,274
2018166#1,360
2017140#1,563
201697#2,033
201563#2,773
201437#4,001
201332#4,420
201228#4,955
201120#6,332
201030#4,734
200915#8,054
200815#8,105
200711#10,125
20066#15,147
20058#11,828
20046#14,172
20030–
20025#15,426

Nicknames for Emberlee

Names like Emberlee

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Emberlee

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