Emi

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Emi: Recorded every year since 1997, its highest recorded position is #790, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#790highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1998	#2407
1999	#1805
2000	#2416
2001	#2023
2002	#3409
2003	#1843
2004	#1535
2005	#1406
2006	#2137
2007	#1656
2008	#1718
2009	#1668
2010	#1653
2011	#1729
2012	#1428
2013	#1537
2014	#1702
2015	#1497
2016	#1416
2017	#1512
2018	#1436
2019	#1634
2020	#1939
2021	#1286
2022	#1501
2023	#1469
2024	#1198

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #1198 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3174 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1198 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Emi appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 438 births with the name.

Emi 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.

Emi'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	#3174 (1997)	#1198 (2024)	#1198 (2024)	28 of 28	438 (1997–2024)	28 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#894 (2013)	#894 (2013)	#896 (2018)	2 of 6	6 (2013–2018)	3 (2013)
England and Wales · Boys	#4789 (2021)	#4789 (2021)	#5119 (2024)	3 of 4	9 (2021–2024)	3 (2021)

Emi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Emi in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	19	3 of 10	6
2000s	114	10 of 10	11
2010s	197	10 of 10	20
2020sbusiest	108	5 of 10	22

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 22 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Emi 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #790 in Scotland in 2024.

Emi'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#1198	28	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1469	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1286	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1634	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1436	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1512	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1497	21	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1537	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1428	22	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1729	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1718	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #790, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 27 years 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.

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Emie · #446, 25y
Emiko · #3117, 18y

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.

Ariadne · #790, 26y
Arwyn · #790, 23y
Lilyana · #790, 23y
Viviana · #790, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adanna · #790, 26y
Ariadne · #790, 26y
Arwyn · #790, 23y
Bali · #790, 10y

Emi was ranked #790 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Emi 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 Emi without appearing here.

Emi moved ahead of

Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3174 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1406 and #3970.
Therese Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3409 and #3409 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1843 and #4373.
Cameron Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1428 and #1428 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1537 and #4050.
Pauline Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1718 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1668 and #3936.

Moved ahead of Emi

Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2023 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #3409 and #938.
Frida Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1406 and #1934 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #1862.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1702 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1497 and #1240.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1512 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1436 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Emi

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Emi went from #3174 to #1198 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Emi went from #3174 to #1198 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Emi went from #3174 to #1198 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Emi went from #3174 to #1198 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Emi

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Emi went from #3174 to #1198 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Emi went from #3174 to #1198 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Emi went from #3174 to #1198 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Emi went from #3174 to #1198 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #790 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Emi

Emi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Emi across 3 official records

Emi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Emi appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Emi at a glance

Emi across 3 official records

Emi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Emi appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Emi

Emi and the names beside it

Emi moved ahead of

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