Emmeline
Top 1000
About Emmeline
Emmeline is an Emma relative and Emily cousin that is destined for greater use in the wake of the megapopularity of those two names. A recommended Nameberry fave, Emmeline hopped onto the US Top 1000 in 2014 for the first time ever. While it is genuinely an old name, it was rarely used a century ago; only 17 baby girls were named Emmeline in 1915, the same number as were named Ernie!
A popular medieval name, Emmeline was introduced to Britain by the Normans. It appeared as a character in Uncle Tom's Cabin, and is famous in Britain as the name of the illustrious suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst. Way back in 1980, it was the name of young Brooke Shields's innocent character in The Blue Lagoon. More recently, Emmeline Vance was a witch in the Harry Potter series.
Christian Bale has a daughter named Emmeline.
Pronounced EM-a-leen.
As of October 2026, Emmeline ranked #922 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #753 in 2017, Nameberry popularity #260.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #900 | 302 | 169.1 |
| 2015 | #810 | 347 | 194.4 |
| 2016 | #789 | 361 | 203.7 |
| 2017 | #753 | 370 | 214.3 |
| 2018 | #788 | 347 | 204 |
| 2019 | #774 | 359 | 213.9 |
| 2020 | #867 | 310 | 191.8 |
| 2021 | #887 | 306 | 186.5 |
| 2022 | #982 | 269 | 164 |
| 2023 | #948 | 276 | 172 |
| 2024 | #939 | 280 | 172.8 |
| 2025 | #922 | 284 | 176.7 |
World rankings
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Emmeline on lists
Famous Emmelines
- Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells
American journalist and poet
- Emmeline Pankhurst
English suffragette
- Emmeline Pethick
Lawrence, Baroness Pethick,Lawrence, English feminist
- Emmeline Ndongue
French Olympic basketball player
- Emmeline Stuart
Wortley, English poet and writer
- Emmeline Bale (b. 2005)
daughter of actor Christian Bale
Emmeline in pop culture
- "Emmeline
The Orphan of the Castle," novel by Charlotte Turner Smith and its main character
- Emmeline Vance
character from the 'Harry Potter' series
- Emmeline
character in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Emmeline Hartford
character in "The House At Riverton" by Kate Morton
- Emmeline Lestrange
character in the original novel/film "The Blue Lagoon"
- Emmeline Mosher
character in novel "Emmeline" by Judith Rossner
- Emmeline Harris
a character from the 'Anne of Green Gables' series
- Emmeline Grangerford
character in novel "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
- Emmeline March
character in novel "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield
- "Emmeline
" a song by Bruno Merz