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Emmer

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Emmer has been given to 2,166 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1926, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Emmer, 1963

1 in 792,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmer: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emmer means

Emmer is a given name.

The naming story behind Emmer

Wikidata records Emmer as a given name. The entity identifier is Q26198143, 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, 2,155 girls were recorded with the name Emmer between 1880 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 69 in 1926; its best national rank was #441 in 1885.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Emmer between 1926 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1929; its best national rank was #3,678 in 1929.

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 Emmer?

Emmer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1963
1 in 792,000
5 of 3,958,455 births
Among girls only
1 in 385,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1963
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmer 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 1963 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 548,760 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmer was born before 1922 — so the typical Emmer is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
105
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (547).

Is Emmer 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1926 (69)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#441
1885

Spellings of Emmer

Emmer is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 55.9% against Emmer's 0.16%.

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 Emmer is used

Across 1910–2025, Emmer was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 48,699 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 7,692
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 50,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

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. Emmer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emmer by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#441
1885
Peak year
1926
69 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
2,155
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,678
1929
Peak year
1929
6 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
1929
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Emmer

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

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Names with a curve like Emmer

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

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Sibling names for Emmer

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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