Emory

What Emory means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #339 vs #3,705 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Emory?

US: Rising: up from #626 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 940 girls got the name (#333 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 1,788 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 42,214 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 AL (2.46 per 1,000 girls), DE (2.22 per 1,000 girls), MS (2.13 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Emory is #339 in the US and #3705 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 77.0% of US babies named Emory were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Emery3,208 US · 27 E&W
• Amora1,259 US · 50 E&W
• Emeri147 US
• Emori135 US
• Emira38 US · 15 E&W
• Emmery51 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 Emory

Girls

• Adeline#59Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Matilda#364Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #19 vs #364 in 2025
• Alina#130Editor’s note Up from #173 in 2015 to #130 in 2025 in the US
• Willa#422Editor’s note Up from #480 in 2015 to #422 in 2025 in the US
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*

For a brother

• 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
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Bruno#740“brown”^*
• Myles#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #223 in 2015, #100 in 2025

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