Emerleigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- EM-er-lee
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Emerleigh is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
Where does Emerleigh come from?
Modern: blend of Emery with the -leigh ending
Is Emerleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Emerleigh 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 Emerleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Emerleigh, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2015.
2025 had fewer girls named Emerleigh than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Emerleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 88 girls in the US were given Emerleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,855, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Emerleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
Nicknames for Emerleigh
- Emmy 132 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Emerleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Elowyn, Emberly, Emberlynn, Wrenley, Oaklynn, Everly, Ellowyn, Lakelynn, Rynlee, Elowen, Elodie, Novaleigh
Other spellings of Emerleigh
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Mya, Ailani
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Emerleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emerleigh, updated 20 October 2026.