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Emmery

#3,141 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Emmery has been given to 1,146 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #3,141 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Emmery, 2025

1 in 65,000

Emmery over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmery: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emmery means

Emmery is a given name.

The naming story behind Emmery

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Emmery in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 331.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Eng. Teu. work rule”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Emmery, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,102 girls were recorded with the name Emmery between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 71 in 2014; its best national rank was #2,519 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,986 in 2020 to #3,141 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,659 in 2015 to #3,141 in 2025.

In the United States, 44 boys were recorded with the name Emmery between 1920 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2021; its best national rank was #3,595 in 1920.

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 Emmery?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 31,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,141
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmery 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 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmery. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmerys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmery was born before 2015 — so the typical Emmery is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,102
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (565).

Is Emmery 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
−525
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−155
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−482
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.8%
Peak was 2014 (71)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,519
2014

Spellings of Emmery

Emmery is not the most common spelling — Emery is, with 30.6% against Emmery's 0.77%.

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 Emmery is used

Across 1910–2025, Emmery was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 242,477 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Emmery has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emmery around the world

Where Emmery 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
    2014–2014
    #2,148
    in 2014

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

Emmery by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,141
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 155
Best rank ever
#2,519
2014
Peak year
2014
71 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,102
Count in 2025
51

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,595
1920
Peak year
2021
10 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
44
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Emmery

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

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Sibling names for Emmery

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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