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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ema

Recorded for girlsMillennial

2025 rank

#1,349

up +212 places

2025 births

164

up +28 births

All-time births

4,857

3% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2025
164 births
Best rank
#717
in 1883
First recorded
1883
#717 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1996
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
129 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2025164#1,349Peak
  2. 2011161#1,417
  3. 2015156#1,472
  4. 2023156#1,431
  5. 2008153#1,522

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #717 in 1883 · peak births 164 in 2025

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ema has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.

The boys' series

No boys have been recorded with this name.

Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.