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Emeri

#1,461 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Emeri has been given to 2,670 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,461 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 181 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Emeri, 2025

1 in 22,600

Emeri over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Emeri over time

In 2025, Emeri went to 90% girls and 10% 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.

Emeri: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emeri means

Emeri is a given name.

The naming story behind Emeri

Wikidata records Emeri as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q118272162, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,526 girls were recorded with the name Emeri between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 181 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,271 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,283 in 2020 to #1,461 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,515 in 2015 to #1,461 in 2025.

In the United States, 144 boys were recorded with the name Emeri between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,496 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,680 in 2020 to #5,450 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,615 in 2015 to #5,450 in 2025.

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 Emeri?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,600
147 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,461
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emeri 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,633 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emeri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emeris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emeri was born before 2017 — so the typical Emeri is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,526
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (1,203).

Is Emeri 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
+37
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−178
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+54
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.99×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.2%
Peak was 2023 (181)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,271
2023

Spellings of Emeri

Emeri is not the most common spelling — Sheri is, with 13.5% against Emeri's 0.57%.

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 Emeri is used

Across 2016–2025, Emeri was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 1,786 girls, against 1 in 10,804 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

156 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 1,786
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 4,348
  3. 3Alabama1 in 4,545
  4. 4Georgia1 in 4,762
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 6,250
  6. 6Missouri1 in 7,143
  7. 7Texas1 in 7,692
  8. 8Ohio1 in 9,091

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.

Emeri around the world

Where Emeri 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
    2023–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023

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

Notable people named Emeri

People whose public names include Emeri, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Emeri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,461
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 178
Best rank ever
#1,271
2023
Peak year
2023
181 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,526
Count in 2025
147

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,450
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,230
Best rank ever
#4,496
2023
Peak year
2023
23 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
144
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Emeri

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

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Names with a curve like Emeri

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Emeri, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Emeri

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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