Ema Girl
How popular is Ema?
#1,348 girl name in 2025
164 baby girls were named Ema in the US in 2025, making it the 1348th most popular girl name.
Ema popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,348 for girls (▲ 211 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 164 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+5% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,470 in 2015, #1,510 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2025 (164 girls) |
| Highest rank | #692 in 1883 |
| First recorded | 1883 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Ema counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Emma family of names ranked #6 for girls in 2025 (#4 the year before), with 12,923 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Emma | 12,754 | 99% |
| Ema | 164 | 1% |
| Emmah | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Ema is most popular
Babies named Ema per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (106 girls)
- New York: 0.2 per 1,000 (60 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (92 girls)
- Illinois: 0.1 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.1 per 1,000 (20 girls)
Ema by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 37 | #692 |
| 1890s | 43 | #1,099 |
| 1900s | 34 | #1,219 |
| 1910s | 127 | #1,521 |
| 1920s | 229 | #1,464 |
| 1930s | 161 | #1,548 |
| 1940s | 93 | #2,391 |
| 1950s | 74 | #3,051 |
| 1960s | 55 | #4,354 |
| 1970s | 114 | #3,513 |
| 1980s | 148 | #3,888 |
| 1990s | 301 | #2,795 |
| 2000s | 1,170 | #1,462 |
| 2010s | 1,424 | #1,415 |
| 2020s | 847 | #1,348 |
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Questions
- Is Ema a boy or girl name?
- Ema is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Ema were girls.
- How popular is the name Ema?
- 164 baby girls were named Ema in the US in 2025, making it the 1348th most popular girl name.
- When was Ema most popular?
- Ema peaked in 2025, when 164 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #692 in 1883.
- How many people are named Ema?
- 4,857 babies have been named Ema in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,187 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Ema most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Ema was most common in Florida, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.