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Emyr

#4,908 in 2025Boys' name

King, lord

Emyr has been given to 127 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #4,908 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Emyr, 2025

1 in 166,000

Emyr over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emyr: meaning, origin, and history

King, lord

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emyr means

Emyr means “king, lord”.

Origin, language, and formation

Emyr is used in Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Emyr is pronounced /ˈɛmɨ̞r/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 127 boys were recorded with the name Emyr between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,745 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,742 in 2020 to #4,908 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,623 in 2015 to #4,908 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 Emyr?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,908
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emyr 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emyr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emyrs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emyr was born before 2022 — so the typical Emyr is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
78.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
127
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 78.0% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Emyr 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
−163
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,834
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,715
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.2%
Peak was 2024 (21)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,745
2024

Spellings of Emyr

Emyr is not the most common spelling — Elmer is, with 29.6% against Emyr's 0.03%.

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 Emyr is used

Across 1910–2025, Emyr was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Emyr has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emyr around the world

Where Emyr 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #3,101
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Emyr by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,908
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,834
Best rank ever
#4,745
2024
Peak year
2024
21 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
127
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Emyr

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

AmyrJahmyrSamyrZamyrJamyrEmyttAhmyrKashmyrVolodymyr

Sibling names for Emyr

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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