# Emlyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/emlyn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Welsh |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 477 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 467 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 322, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25 | 5,478 |
| 2011 | 21 | 6,212 |
| 2012 | 22 | 5,969 |
| 2013 | 18 | 6,826 |
| 2014 | 8 | 12,270 |
| 2015 | 14 | 8,137 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,186 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,948 |
| 2019 | 31 | 4,473 |
| 2020 | 25 | 5,063 |
| 2021 | 20 | 6,017 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,180 |
| 2023 | 20 | 6,030 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11,407 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9,649 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 5 | 4,421 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,787 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 11 | 1,962 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,055 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,431 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,546 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 21 | 1,268 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 21 | 1,282 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,153 |

## People named Emlyn

- Emlyn Hughes, English association football player (1947–2004)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.