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Emerik

#5,451 in 2025Boys' name

Hard work, through Emmerich

Emerik has been given to 114 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #5,451 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Emerik, 2025

1 in 195,000

Emerik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emerik: meaning, origin, and history

Hard work, through Emmerich

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emerik means

Emerik belongs to the name family reached through Emerik → Emmerich. Its meaning is “hard work”.

Origin, language, and formation

Emerik is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Emerik comes through German Emmerich.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emmerich.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Emerik is pronounced /êmerik/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 114 boys were recorded with the name Emerik between 2013 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,451 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,256 in 2020 to #5,451 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,985 in 2015 to #5,451 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Emerik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,451
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emerik sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emerik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emeriks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emerik was born before 2020 — so the typical Emerik is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
114
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Emerik 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
+1,498
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,805
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,534
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (17)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,451
2025

Spellings of Emerik

Emerik is not the most common spelling — Erik is, with 84.0% against Emerik's 0.06%.

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 Emerik is used

Across 1910–2025, Emerik was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Emerik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emerik around the world

Where Emerik 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.

  • France
    1978–2016
    #4,049
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Emerik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,451
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,805
Best rank ever
#5,451
2025
Peak year
2025
17 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
114
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Emerik

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

EmerykEmersenEmeriEmelioCedrikEmerilEmerieEmersynEmericEmettEmethEmekaAlarikMerrikEmeraldEdrikAadrikEmrikEmerettAirikUlrikLorikJerrikEmerick

Sibling names for Emerik

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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