Emeli

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Emeli: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Emeli: Recorded every year since 2012, its highest recorded position is #167, and it stood at #5,581 in 2021.

3registrars recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
10years from first to last
#167highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2012–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#916
2013	#699
2014	#1411
2015	#2496
2016	#3214
2017	#2201
2018	#3518
2019	#4001
2020	#3899
2021	#5581

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2012 to 2021.

In 2014: #876 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1411 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2012–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2012
First recorded at #916 among girls in England and Wales in 2012 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2012–2013
Highest recorded position: #167 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2013 (recorded 2012–2013).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #5581 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021.
England and Wales · Girls

Emeli appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 2012, and has registered 167 births with the name.

Emeli across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Emeli's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#916 (2012)	#699 (2013)	#5581 (2021)	10 of 10	167 (2012–2021)	57 (2013)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#451 (2012)	#167 (2013)	#167 (2013)	2 of 2	15 (2012–2013)	12 (2013)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#894 (2013)	#876 (2014)	#876 (2014)	2 of 2	6 (2013–2014)	3 (2013)

Emeli appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2012 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #167 in Northern Ireland in 2013.

Emeli's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1411	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#699	57	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#916	40	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#167	12	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2012 and 2021, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #167, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 57 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 1 year separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Embla · #96, 33y
Emel · #1958, 24y
Emelia · #164, 30y
Emelia-Rose · #1628, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Fodhla · #178, 13y
Blain · #186, 13y
Courteney · #186, 15y
Ruadh · #187, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Saerlaith · #166, 13y
Reeva · #183, 15y
Cadain · #186, 10y
Nelia · #187, 11y

Emeli was ranked #167 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2013. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Emeli and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Emeli without appearing here.

Moved ahead of Emeli

Karin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3192.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #1436.
Brittany Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3518 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.
Carol Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4001 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.

Moved the opposite way to Emeli

Ada Compare
Between 2012 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Emeli went from #916 to #5581 while Ada went from #384 to #44.
Alma Compare
Between 2012 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Emeli went from #916 to #5581 while Alma went from #749 to #267.
Aria Compare
Between 2012 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Emeli went from #916 to #5581 while Aria went from #294 to #37.
Astrid Compare
Between 2012 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Emeli went from #916 to #5581 while Astrid went from #607 to #240.

Moved the same way as Emeli

Abigail Compare
Between 2012 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Emeli went from #916 to #5581 and Abigail from #44 to #105.
Aimee Compare
Between 2012 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Emeli went from #916 to #5581 and Aimee from #153 to #1195.
Alex Compare
Between 2012 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Emeli went from #916 to #5581 and Alex from #916 to #1866.
Amalie Compare
Between 2012 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Emeli went from #916 to #5581 and Amalie from #663 to #1102.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2012 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #167 in Northern Ireland in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Emeli

Emeli at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Emeli across 3 official records

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

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Emeli at a glance

Emeli across 3 official records

Emeli appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Emeli

Emeli and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Emeli

Moved the opposite way to Emeli

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