Emilee
- Pronunciation
- [Eh-mi-lee]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Variant Of Emily. Hard Worker.
- Origin
- Latin
About the Name Emilee
Emilee is a modern respelling of Emily, a name with deep Latin roots. The classical form traces back to the Roman family name Aemilius, itself connected to the Latin aemulus, meaning industrious or striving — the hard-worker sense often cited. Emily spread widely through English-speaking countries after the eighteenth century, becoming one of the most recognizable feminine names in the Western tradition. Emilee, like fellow respellings Emilie, Emylee, and Emmalee listed in its variant set, carries the same etymological heritage while offering a more individualized orthography, without any independent ancient etymology beyond that Latin source.
Emilee first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and reached its peak in 2003 at #304. Over its two-decade tracked run it recorded 13,540 top-1000 births. The name followed the broader Emily family closely: strong through the early 2000s, then gradually fading as the classic spelling reasserted dominance. By 2017 it ranked #839 with 324 births, improving to #772 in 2018 with 353 births, before a final tracked appearance at #975 with 266 births in 2019.
Recorded variants include Amalea, Amalia, Amalie, Amelie, Emilia, Emilie, Emmalee, and Emylee — a broad family that spans Romance-language variants and purely phonetic English respellings alike. Emilee occupies a middle ground: more distinctive on paper than plain Emily while remaining instantly pronounceable and warmly familiar in sound.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Emilee
US Popularity History (2000–2019)
Annual US births named Emilee by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2003 with 1,019 girls named Emilee (girl rank #304 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2019, ranked #975 for girls (266 US births). That's 671 places below its 2003 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Emilee Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Emilee the strongest states are Mississippi, Kentucky, Arkansas.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #430 | 31 |
| 2 | Kentucky | #437 | 32 |
| 3 | Arkansas | #539 | 17 |
| 4 | Nevada | #551 | 16 |
| 5 | Washington | #631 | 33 |
| 6 | South Carolina | #634 | 42 |
| 7 | Utah | #667 | 29 |
| 8 | Missouri | #674 | 34 |
| 9 | Alabama | #681 | 28 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | #681 | 30 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #1,179 | 113 |
| 2 | Texas | #955 | 181 |
| 3 | Florida | #923 | 91 |
| 4 | Ohio | #913 | 76 |
| 5 | Minnesota | #873 | 16 |
| 6 | North Carolina | #873 | 62 |
| 7 | Colorado | #864 | 17 |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | #848 | 66 |
| 9 | Michigan | #817 | 57 |
| 10 | Wisconsin | #751 | 19 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Emilee in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amalea | Hard-Working | Female | Italian |
| Amalia | Spanish Form Of Amelia Industrious | Female | Spanish |
| Amalie | Industrious. Striving. | Female | French |
| Amelie | Hard-Working | Female | French |
| Emilia | Flattering | Female | Spanish |
| Emilie | German Form Of Emily (Industrious) | Female | German |
| Emmalee | Variation Of The Name Emily | Female | English |
| Emylee | Alternate Spelling: Emily. | Female | English |
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Compare Emilee to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Emilee against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).