Amery
Feminine · “work and power”
Amery is given to both — 630 girls and 106 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Amery is a Germanic compound that came into England with the Normans and has been spelled a dozen ways since: Amaury in France, Emery in England, Amerigo in Italy, which is where the Americas got their name. Its two elements are work and power, which is a blunter pairing than most.
How old is the name Amery?
Amery first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Amery is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Amery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amery most popular?
Amery peaked in 2009, reaching #3561 nationally. Today it ranks #4987, 1,426 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
Where it comes from
From Amalric to Amery
The story of Amery
Amalric was a Visigothic and Frankish name that the Normans carried to England as Aimeri and Emery, where it became a surname and a modest first name. Italian made it Amerigo, and a Florentine navigator of that name had his given name attached to two continents by a German mapmaker in 1507, which is the single strangest afterlife any personal name has had. Amery is the English spelling, now used for girls as often as boys.
Meaning
work and power; industrious ruler
Germanic amal, work or labor, joined to ric, power or rule. The same amal opens Amelia and the same ric closes Frederick and Heinrich. Amaury, Emery and Amerigo are all the same compound in different mouths.
How the name formed
- Amalric
- Aimeri
- Emery
- Amery
Related forms: Amaury · Amerigo · Emery · Emmerich
Pronouncing Amery
AY-muh-ree
Three syllables, stress in front. Some families say AM-uh-ree with a flat first vowel, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Amery
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
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 200945 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3561reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −16.1%26 in 2025, from 31
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.
Amery in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amaury in French — same name
- Amerigo in Italian — same name
- Emery in English — spelling variant
- Emmerich in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Amerys among us
people named Amery are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 61,818 born in 2025 was named Amery
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amery
- #4987
- Amery on the 2025 chart
- #891
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amery went to 26 girls in 2025, but Ameri is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 69, which makes it the 891st most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,096 places above the chart.
- Ameri43
- Amery26
About 1 girl in 23,294 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 61,818 for Amery itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Miles test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amery's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Miles climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Miles's path sketches the road Amery is walking now.
Amery 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 Amery is headed
Amery looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 23% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Amery beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amery in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries a documented Germanic compound with relatives across five languages.
- It works for a child of either sex, which some families want.
- The connection to the naming of the Americas is a genuinely good story to have.
- Emery is the commoner English spelling and will be written instead.
- Two pronunciations circulate and the spelling settles neither.
- Amery, Emery and Avery are close enough to be confused in speech.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amerys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Amery are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amery?
- Amery is one of 2 recorded spellings. Ameri is the more common one — 43 births in 2025 against 26 for Amery.
- How popular is the name Amery in 2025?
- Amery ranks #4987 among US girl names in 2025, with 26 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amery?
- About 1 in every 61,818 US girls born in 2025 was named Amery — 26 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amery with classmates?
- Amery will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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