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Emberlyn

Girl · EM-ber-lin · Modern

Emberlyn is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “glowing coal + lake”. In 2025 it ranked 1,318th for girls in the US (169 babies).

What does Emberlyn mean?

Modern: blend of Ember and Lynn

“glowing coal + lake”

Combines the English word ember with Lynn, from Welsh llyn, 'lake'.

Say it
EM-ber-lin

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

Emberlyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 169 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Emberlyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,318among girls
Babies in 2025
169about 1 in 9,500 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 20% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 169 girls in the US were named Emberlyn, making it the 1,318th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,448th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 238 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.

2025 had fewer girls named Emberlyn than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Emberlyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 455 girls in the US were given Emberlyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #639, up from #1,318 for this spelling alone.

2003Busiest: 238 in 20212025
Emberlyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025169#1,318
2024185#1,259
2023181#1,269
2022204#1,177
2021238#1,058
2020149#1,448
2019136#1,569
2018159#1,406
2017149#1,489
2016112#1,841
2015106#1,908
201485#2,213
201370#2,533
201244#3,582
201152#3,172
201034#4,305
200927#5,225
200819#6,796
200717#7,390
200621#6,123
200512#8,878
200420#5,965
20037#12,401

Nicknames for Emberlyn

Names like Emberlyn

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

Other spellings of Emberlyn

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