Emery

What Emery means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Emery yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Emery?

US: Rising: up from #134 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 3,208 girls got the name (#74 that year). First in the US records in 1906.

How common

• About 1 in 501 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,381 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (11.1 per 1,000 girls), SD (8.19 per 1,000 girls), VT (7.19 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Emery is #74 in the US and #1197 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 91.3% of US babies named Emery were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Emory899 US · 6 E&W
• Emeri147 US
• Emori135 US
• Emira38 US · 15 E&W
• Emmery51 US
• Ameri43 US
• Emara29 US · 8 E&W
• Emari31 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Emery

Girls

• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Matilda#364Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #19 vs #364 in 2025
• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*

For a brother

• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*
• Grayson#51“steward”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Emery’s. Rank is US 2025.