Emeline

Where Emeline comes from

The dictionaries list Emeline as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, a form of Emmeline — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1836
    Emeline S. Burlingame born
    American editor, evangelist, suffragist
  2. 1836
    Emeline Roberts Jones born
    American dentist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1886
    Peak, #476
    21 babies named Emeline — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,061.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a form of Emmeline.
Namesakes
  • Emeline Roberts Jones · American dentist, 1836–1916
  • Emeline S. Burlingame · American editor, evangelist, suffragist, 1836–1923
  • Emeline K/Bidi · French politician, born 1987
  • Emeline Pierre · French Paralympic swimmer, born 1999
  • Emeline Detilleux · Belgian mountain biker, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.