Even though emily statistically had the most popularity in the 90s/2000s, 100 years earlier it was also used a fair amount, albeit it wasn’t in top 5 popular in the 1900s but it was a well known name. Emily fell out of the top 100 in the 1920s, joined again the in 70s and reached its peak as the top name in the late 90s/early 2000s.It’s definitely classic but it fell out of favour for a very long time before being rediscovered.
There’s alot of names with a similar generation cycle to Emily like Olivia, Isabella, Lily etc which had fallen out of favour and were seen as old fashioned but then get popular again with parents who didn’t know people with those names when they were kids so it sounded fresh to them.
So it got me wondering what era of Emily do people think of most in 2025 when they hear the name. The Victorian days of the name Emily being in use or Emily’s second wave of popularity as the top name from the late 90s into the 00s?