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Emmalynn

Gender
Girl
Say it
EM-a-lin
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#1,525 for girls

Emmalynn is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “universal + lake”. In 2025 it ranked 1,525th for girls in the US (139 babies).

What does Emmalynn mean?

Modern: blend of Emma and Lynn

“universal + lake”

Combines Emma, from a Germanic word for whole or universal, with Lynn, from Welsh llyn, 'lake'.

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

Emmalynn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 139 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Emmalynn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,525among girls
Babies in 2025
139about 1 in 12,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 50% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 139 girls in the US were named Emmalynn, making it the 1,525th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 984th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 409 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 7 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Emmalynn than any year since 2009.

Half of all the girls named Emmalynn in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1985Busiest: 409 in 20152025
Emmalynn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025139#1,525
2024144#1,505
2023156#1,430
2022190#1,259
2021221#1,116
2020259#984
2019293#906
2018324#835
2017304#889
2016334#848
2015409#693
2014365#765
2013313#841
2012287#910
2011228#1,079
2010216#1,133
2009134#1,660
200886#2,267
200752#3,247
200662#2,815
200554#2,965
200442#3,486
200341#3,468
200222#5,250
200115#6,951
200017#6,202
199915#6,478
199815#6,355
199710#8,329
19966#11,801
19957#10,509
19940–
19935#13,435
199210#8,057
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19855#10,672

Nicknames for Emmalynn

Names like Emmalynn

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

Names related to Emmalynn

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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, “Emmalynn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emmalynn, updated 20 October 2026.