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Emelly

Girl · EM-eh-lee · Latin

Emelly is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “rival”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Emelly mean?

Latin: spelling of Emely, itself a spelling of Emily, from Latin Aemilia

“rival”

Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems, most of them published only after her death.

Say it
EM-eh-lee

Meaning borrowed from Emely.

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

Emelly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Emelly in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Emelly, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2006, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the girls named Emelly in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 701 girls in the US were given Emelly or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #454, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.

1993Busiest: 28 in 20062025
Emelly in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
202411#8,941
20237#12,192
20220–
20216#13,459
20205#15,083
20198#11,350
201810#9,801
20176#14,120
20169#10,855
20158#11,830
201410#10,124
20139#10,995
201213#8,628
201112#9,146
201020#6,380
200915#8,054
200820#6,556
200727#5,227
200628#4,952
200521#5,795
200418#6,484
200323#5,230
200217#6,386
200123#5,004
200012#8,020
199917#5,890
199815#6,355
19978#9,797
19967#10,562
19958#9,548
19945#13,423
19936#11,773

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Names like Emelly

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

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