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Amery

#4,995 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Variant of Emery

Amery has been given to 736 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,995 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 45 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.

Babies named Amery, 2025

1 in 128,000

Amery over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Amery over time

In 2025, Amery went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Amery: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Emery

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amery means

Amery is a variant of Emery.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Amery is a variant of Emery. Emery has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emery.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 630 girls were recorded with the name Amery between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2009; its best national rank was #3,564 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,002 in 2020 to #4,995 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,137 in 2015 to #4,995 in 2025.

In the United States, 106 boys were recorded with the name Amery between 1971 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1978; its best national rank was #3,865 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Amery?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,995
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amery sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amery. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amerys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amery was born before 2013 — so the typical Amery is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
630
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Choose a decade

2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (262).

Is Amery rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−516
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,007
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+142
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.8%
Peak was 2009 (45)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,564
2009

Spellings of Amery

Amery is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 72.8% against Amery's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Amery is used

Across 1910–2025, Amery was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 168,415 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Amery has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amery around the world

Where Amery ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Amery by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,995
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,007
Best rank ever
#3,564
2009
Peak year
2009
45 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
630
Count in 2025
26

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,865
1978
Peak year
1978
9 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
106
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amery

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AmelaAmeyaAmelyAmenaAmeraAmeriAmeliAmeilaAmelyaAmeriaAmeiaAmelAmerahAmenAmerisIveryAmeiraAmeeAmelliaAmeliahAmeenaAmenahAmeaAmeenah

Sibling names for Amery

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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