Fun Facts About the Name Emberlyn
- More than 2 thousand babies named Emberlyn: U.S. records list 2,195 babies given the name Emberlyn from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Emberlyn Mean?
Emberlyn is a modern English name formed from the word name Ember plus the ending -lyn. Ember goes back to Old English ǣmerge (also spelled ǣmyrie), a word for a live coal or hot ash, with relatives in other Germanic languages such as Old Norse eimyrja. In ordinary English the word is usually plural - the embers of a fire - and its literal sense is a small piece of burning fuel, not a flame. So the name's core meaning is simply that: a glowing ember.
The -lyn element carries no separate meaning in Emberlyn. It belongs to a broad group of English names - Evelyn, Madelyn, Carolyn, Gwendolyn - where it acts as a lengthening or softening ending, and in those older names it comes from unrelated sources (Welsh llyn, "lake"; the -line of Aveline; and so on). In newer formations such as Emberlyn it is decorative rather than a word with its own sense. Emberlyn is also unrelated to Amber, which descends from Arabic ʿanbar, "ambergris," by way of Old French ambre.
Emberlyn Name History & Origins
Emberlyn follows a well-established English pattern in which a short word or name is joined to the ending -lyn, as in Adalyn, Braelyn, and Raelynn. The element Ember has a longer independent life as an English vocabulary word, and it has also been used on its own as a given name; the extended form Emberlyn is characteristic of the same naming style that favors two- and three-syllable names with that ending.
The ember of Ember Days - the traditional Christian fasts observed at the beginning of each season - looks the same but is a different word, and it is not part of the name's background. That ember derives from Old English ymbryne, "circuit" or "revolution," from ymb, "around," and ryne, "course," and was used to render Latin phrases for the quarterly fasts. It has no connection to the burning-coal word behind Ember.
How Popular is the Name Emberlyn?
Emberlyn has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2021. Its best rank was #1,058 in 2021.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,320 | 169 | 0.0105% |
| 2024 | #1,251 | 185 | 0.0115% |
| 2023 | #1,269 | 181 | 0.0113% |
| 2022 | #1,180 | 204 | 0.0124% |
| 2021 | #1,058 | 238 | 0.0145% |
| 2020 | #1,452 | 149 | 0.0092% |
| 2019 | #1,573 | 136 | 0.0081% |
| 2018 | #1,407 | 159 | 0.0094% |
| 2017 | #1,491 | 149 | 0.0086% |
| 2016 | #1,857 | 111 | 0.0063% |
| 2015 | #1,911 | 106 | 0.0059% |
| 2014 | #2,220 | 85 | 0.0048% |
| 2013 | #2,540 | 70 | 0.0040% |
| 2012 | #3,599 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 2011 | #3,185 | 52 | 0.0030% |
| 2010 | #4,329 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2009 | #5,266 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2008 | #6,883 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2007 | #7,490 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2006 | #6,202 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2005 | #9,062 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2004 | #6,047 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2003 | #12,824 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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