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The first name 
Emmaleigh

Emmaleigh is a first name for girls.

Emmaleigh is a well-known but special name!

Emmaleigh is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 2,002 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 2,001 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Emmaleigh.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Emmaleigh

Emmaleigh -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Emmaleigh did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Emmaleigh seemed to be more popular than ever in 2010. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,453, 143 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Emmaleigh, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Emmaleigh was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Emmaleigh in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Emmaleigh a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #4,321 - with a total of 27 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Emmaleigh -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Emmaleigh are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Emmaleigh in 22 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California or Florida. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Emmaleigh live in Georgia – here, one in 50,735 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 162,458 will turn around if you call her first name Emmaleigh.

Emmaleigh has 9 letters 
and begins with an E

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With nine letters, the name Emmaleigh is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Emmaleigh

If your name is Emmaleigh and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Emmaleigh

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Emmaleigh, you can simply say:

Elephant

Mouse

Mouse

Apple

Lion

Elephant

Igloo

Goat

Hat

This is how the name Emmaleigh is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Emmaleigh in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Emmaleigh

Emmaleigh

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Emmaleigh

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Emmaleigh is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
M
M
A
L
E
I
G
H

Have you ever waved the name Emmaleigh

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

E
M
M
A
L
E
I
G
H

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Emmaleigh sounds like this: