Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Emmah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Emmah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Emmah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Emmah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Emmah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Emmah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Emmah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Emmah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 100%
2000 19 0.000005027 19 100%
2001 17 0.000004541 17 100%
2002 30 0.000008025 30 100%
2003 41 0.000010783 41 100%
2004 50 0.000013086 50 100%
2005 57 0.000014825 57 100%
2006 53 0.000013397 53 100%
2007 55 0.000013758 55 100%
2008 78 0.000019844 78 100%
2009 55 0.000014397 55 100%
2010 61 0.000016505 61 100%
2011 53 0.00001449 53 100%
2012 56 0.000015312 56 100%
2013 54 0.000014812 54 100%
2014 40 0.000010792 40 100%
2015 57 0.000015402 57 100%
2016 34 0.000009268 34 100%
2017 24 0.000006711 24 100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 100%
2019 20 0.000005762 20 100%
2020 16 0.00000479 16 100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Emmah:

  1. Emmabeth
  2. Emmaclaire
  3. Emmadell
  4. Emmagene
  5. Emmagrace
  6. Emmah (this page)
  7. Emmajane
  8. Emmajean
  9. Emmajo
  10. Emmajoy
  11. Emmakate