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Emre

#3,596 in 2025Boys' name

To love, desire

Emre has been given to 974 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #3,596 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Emre, 2025

1 in 107,000

Emre over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emre: meaning, origin, and history

To love, desire

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emre means

Emre means “to love, desire”, associated with amran-.

Origin, language, and formation

Emre is used in Turkish.

Emre comes through Proto-Turkic *ăm-.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Emre is pronounced [emɾɛ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 969 boys were recorded with the name Emre between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2010; its best national rank was #2,586 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,152 in 2020 to #3,596 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,537 in 2015 to #3,596 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Emre between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2020; its best national rank was #15,830 in 2020.

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 Emre?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,596
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emre 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emre was born before 2010 — so the typical Emre is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
969
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (328).

Is Emre 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
+125
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−444
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−59
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.1%
Peak was 2010 (43)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,586
2003

Spellings of Emre

Emre is not the most common spelling — Earl is, with 51.3% against Emre's 0.17%.

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 Emre is used

Across 1910–2025, Emre was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 316,082 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Emre has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emre around the world

Where Emre 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
    1996–2025
    #896
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2017
    #733
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2004–2020
    #741
    in 2020
  • France
    1980–2025
    #1,904
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #370
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2005
    #427
    in 2005

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

Emre by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,596
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 444
Best rank ever
#2,586
2003
Peak year
2010
43 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
969
Count in 2025
31

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,830
2020
Peak year
2020
5 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Emre

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

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Sibling names for Emre

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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