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Emrah

Boys' name

Variant of Emre

Emrah has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 2006, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Emrah, 2022

1 in 677,000

Emrah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emrah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Emre

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emrah means

Emrah is a variant of Emre.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Emrah is used in Turkish and Bosnian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Emrah → Emre. The family’s meaning is “to love, desire”, recorded in Turkish with the source elements amran-.

Origin, language, and formation

Emrah is used in Turkish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emre.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 119 boys were recorded with the name Emrah between 1998 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,065 in 2006.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Emrah between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2023; its best national rank was #15,908 in 2023.

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 Emrah?

Emrah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emrah 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emrah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emrahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emrah was born before 2009 — so the typical Emrah is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
119
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.4% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Emrah 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (11)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,065
2006

Spellings of Emrah

Emrah is not the most common spelling — Ezra is, with 84.2% against Emrah's 0.09%.

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.

Emrah around the world

Where Emrah 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 & Wales
    1998–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1979–2021
    #4,208
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Emrah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,065
2006
Peak year
2006
11 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
119
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,908
2023
Peak year
2023
5 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Emrah

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

EmrikEmricEmrisEmriEmranJirahEmrickEmrynJorahEmrykIrahEmrysEmreyEmronNorahFarahEmryEmreEmreeEmraanEmrenTerahAzrahEzrah

Sibling names for Emrah

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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