Emelyn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛmɪɫɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Emelyn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 135K
- BRBrazil1 in 393K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emelyn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #567 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 26K | Emelyn | 79 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Emelyn | 14 |
| US United States | — | 2,461 | 1 in 135K | 2.4K | Emelyn | 205 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #980 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Emelyn | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 539 | 1 in 393K | 539 | Emelyn | 53 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Emelyn | 22 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Emelyn | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emelyn Amelia Coltonb. 1858(1858-1949)
- Emelyn Elizabeth Gardnerb. 1872USAmerican author and writer (1872-1998)
- Emelyn Whitonb. 1916USsailor
- Emelyn Starrb. 1989AUAustralian tennis player
- Emelyn van Wingerdenb. 2001DEGerman handball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #6,498 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 539 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 536 | #12,688 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 380 | #16,994 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 378 | #9,025 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 122 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 79 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #6,498 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Emelyn?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛmɪɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Emelyn a male or female name?
- Emelyn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Emelyn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Emelyn in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emelyn.
- How common is the name Emelyn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,461 people named Emelyn in 2020, about 1 in 135 thousand residents.
- How common is Emelyn compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Emelyn is the 567th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Emelyn?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emelynThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Emelyn” — the 567th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.