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Emrys

#1,260 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Immortal, divine

Emrys has been given to 1,651 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #1,260 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 185 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% boys, 21% girls all-time.

Babies named Emrys, 2025

1 in 21,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Emrys over time

In 2025, Emrys went to 16% girls and 84% boys.

19972025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Emrys: meaning, origin, and history

Immortal, divine

Ancient Greek

What Emrys means

Emrys means “immortal, divine”, associated with ambrósios.

Origin, language, and formation

Emrys is used in Welsh. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Emrys comes through Proto-Brythonic *Ėmrös, Latin Ambrosius and Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ambrose.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Emrys is pronounced /ˈɛmrɨ̞s/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,310 boys were recorded with the name Emrys between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 185 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,141 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,790 in 2020 to #1,260 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,416 in 2015 to #1,260 in 2025.

In the United States, 341 girls were recorded with the name Emrys between 2010 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,715 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,927 in 2020 to #4,482 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,098 in 2015 to #4,482 in 2025.

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 Emrys?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,100
157 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,260
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,637 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emrys 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,637 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emrys. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emryss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emrys was born before 2021 — so the typical Emrys is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,310
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 56.6% of all recorded uses (741).

Is Emrys 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
−119
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+530
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,156
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.96×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.9%
Peak was 2024 (185)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,141
2024

Spellings of Emrys

Emrys is not the most common spelling — Emery is, with 43.6% against Emrys's 2.8%.

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 Emrys is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Emrys was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 25,660 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 14,286
  2. 2Idaho1 in 14,286
  3. 3Oregon1 in 14,286
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 14,286
  5. 5Washington1 in 16,667
  6. 6Arizona1 in 20,000
  7. 7California1 in 20,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 20,000

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.

Where Emrys is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Emrys was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,286,077 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Emrys has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emrys around the world

Where Emrys 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
    1997–2025
    #418
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2025
    #372
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #949
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–1992
    #538
    in 1992

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

Emrys by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,260
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 530
Best rank ever
#1,141
2024
Peak year
2024
185 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,310
Count in 2025
157

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,482
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 445
Best rank ever
#3,715
2024
Peak year
2024
41 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
341
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Emrys

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

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Sibling names for Emrys

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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