Emali
loc · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emali is a name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. It appears chiefly in Swahili and Hindi, written in the Latin script.
- KEKenya1 in 821◐
- GEGeorgia1 in 91K
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈187 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 17 ●
- 1 in 91K ◐
across 3 countries
recorded for this name
12K records
Official registry-verified
Georgia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ემალი in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | 51,328 | 196 rec. | — | — | Emali | 14 |
| IN India | 991 | 11K rec. | — | — | Emali | 4 |
| US United States | 142△ | 62 rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 142 | — | 17 |
| GE Georgia | 44 | 64 rec. | 1 in 91K | 44 | Ემალი | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 rec. | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 3 |
| FR France | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | 1 rec. | — | 1 | — | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 0 rec. | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili51K90%
- Hindi9912%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 51,328 | 90% |
| Hindi | 991 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Emali is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, enamel (glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 14 years between 1991–2012. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 142 | #46,679 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 7 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 35 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Emali?
- We estimate roughly 187 people bear Emali (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Emali have the most bearers?
- Emali is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled emali.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Emali”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.