Empress
#2,304 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Empress has been given to 1,753 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #2,304 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 157 recorded.
Babies named Empress, 2025
1 in 42,000
Empress over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Empress?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 42,000
- 79 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 20,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,304
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,088 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Empress sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Empress. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Empresss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Empress was born before 2018 — so the typical Empress is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,753
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (734).
Is Empress 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
- −287
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −740
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +356
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.18×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.3%
- Peak was 2019 (157)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.9% average annual change
Spellings of Empress
Empress is the most-used spelling, taking 62.6% of the 2,799 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Empress62.6%1,753
- Cypress37.4%1,046
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 Empress is used
Across 2016–2025, Empress was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 12,869 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 3,448
- 2Florida1 in 5,882
- 3North Carolina1 in 5,882
- 4South Carolina1 in 7,692
- 5New York1 in 8,333
- 6Virginia1 in 10,000
- 7Maryland1 in 12,500
- 8Texas1 in 16,667
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.
Empress around the world
Where Empress 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.
- England & Wales2004–2019#4,001in 2019
- Canada2007–2022#3,322in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Empress by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Empress
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Empress
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.