Emi

Where Emi comes from

Emi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,919 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Emi Yamamoto born
    Japanese association football player
  3. 1990
    Emi Nakajima born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 2025
    Peak, #881
    303 babies named Emi — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Emi Yamamoto · Japanese association football player, born 1982
  • Emi Nakajima · Japanese association football player, born 1990
  • Emi Shinohara · Japanese voice actress, 1963–2024
  • Emi Takei · Japanese actress and model, born 1993
  • Emi Wada · Japanese costume designer, 1937–2021

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.