Amerie
Feminine · “work-power”
Amerie is a recent American spelling with an older name standing not far behind it. Amery and Emery are English forms of a Germanic compound about work and power, and Amerie sits close enough to be related and far enough that nobody has proved it.
How old is the name Amerie?
Amerie first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Amerie alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 2,600 people named Amerie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amerie most popular?
Amerie peaked in 2005, reaching #1343 nationally. Today it ranks #2822, 1,479 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Amalric to Amerie
The story of Amerie
Amalric was a Frankish name carried into England by the Normans, where it settled as Amery and Emery and became a surname as well as a given name. It faded and has been returning through the surname route, as so many have. Amerie belongs to the recent end of that: an -ie ending on a name whose older forms end in -y or -ery, spelled the way a modern American parent would spell it. It sits in a large family of similar-sounding names, most of which are newer than they look and some of which are much older.
Meaningscholars disagree
work-power — if the Amery reading holds
Amery and Emery come from Germanic Amalric, from amal, 'work, labor', and ric, 'power, rule' — the same first element as Amelia and Emeline. That reading is settled for those names. Whether Amerie descends from Amery is not recorded: the name also sits among Amari, Amaya and Emerie in current American use, where the shape is doing the work. Both are plausible and neither is documented.
How the name formed
- Amalric
- Amery
- Amerie
Related forms: Emery · Emmerich · Aymeric
Pronouncing Amerie
AM-uh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first. uh-MEER-ee, with the stress in the middle, is also heard and follows Amira rather than Amery; the name is new enough that neither has settled.
Nicknames for Amerie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2002
- Most girls named
- 2008174 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1343reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −25.9%60 in 2025, from 81
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Amerie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emery in English — related form
- Emmerich in German — related form
- Aymeric in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Ameries among us
people named Amerie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was named Amerie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jenell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amerie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jenell climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jenell's path sketches the road Amerie is walking now.
Amerie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Amerie is headed
Amerie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Amerie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amerie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three easy syllables that English speakers manage at first sight.
- Ami and Ree are both natural short forms, and Ami is a name of its own elsewhere.
- Familiar-sounding without being one of the very common names it resembles.
- Amerie, Amari, Emerie and Amiree are all in use and none of them is standard.
- The two pronunciations both circulate, so the child will be correcting people.
- Its descent from Amery is likely rather than recorded, so a firm etymology overstates it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ameries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Amerie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Amerie in 2025?
- Amerie ranks #2822 among US girl names in 2025, with 60 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amerie?
- About 1 in every 26,788 US girls born in 2025 was named Amerie — 60 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amerie with classmates?
- Amerie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Amerie
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