Emarie
Feminine · “an Em- name joined to Marie”
Emarie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,502 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Emarie is a compound, and both halves are old. Em comes off the Emma and Emily group; Marie is the French Mary, one of the most given names in the history of Europe. The join is recent and American.
How old is the name Emarie?
Emarie first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Emarie is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,500 people named Emarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emarie most popular?
Emarie peaked in 2018, reaching #1997 nationally. Today it ranks #2778, 781 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Miriam to Emarie
The story of Emarie
American naming has been making compound girls' names for well over a century, and Marie has been one of the most-used second halves in the whole practice — Annemarie, Rosemarie, Jomarie, Emarie. It comes into that role through French and through the enormous Catholic use of Marie as a second name given to every daughter regardless of her first. Emarie belongs to the recent end of the tradition, where the compound is written as one word rather than two and functions as a single name rather than a pair.
Meaningscholars disagree
an Em- name joined to Marie, whose own reading is unsettled
The second half is Marie, the French form of Maria and ultimately of Hebrew Miriam, whose meaning has never been settled — 'bitter', 'beloved' and an Egyptian source have all been argued. The first half is the Em- of Emma, from Germanic ermen, 'whole', or of Emily, from the Roman Aemilius; the compound does not say which. So the name is built from two real names, one of them with a disputed meaning and the other ambiguous by construction.
How the name formed
- Miriam
- Maria
- Marie
- Emarie
Related forms: Marie · Emmarie · Annemarie
Pronouncing Emarie
EM-uh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first. Some families say em-uh-REE, giving the Marie its own weight, and both are used; the compound is new enough that neither has become standard.
Nicknames for Emarie
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
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 201898 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1997reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- +3.4%61 in 2025, from 59
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.
Emarie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marie in French — related form
- Emmarie in English — spelling variant
- Annemarie in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Tennessee.
Emaries among us
people named Emarie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 26,349 born in 2025 was named Emarie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Emarie
- #2778
- Emarie on the 2025 chart
- #789
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Emarie went to 61 girls in 2025, but Emmarie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 171, which makes it the 789th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,989 places above the chart.
- Emmarie110
- Emarie61
About 1 girl in 9,399 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 26,349 for Emarie 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 Shontae test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emarie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shontae climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shontae's path sketches the road Emarie is walking now.
Emarie 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 Emarie is headed
Emarie is easing off slowly — about 15% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Emarie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emarie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves are real names with long records, which most compounds cannot claim.
- Em, Emmy and Marie are three ready short forms across two registers.
- Long enough to feel formal, with easy everyday forms available.
- Emarie, Emmarie and Emmarei are all in use, and the doubled m gets added or dropped freely.
- The two stress patterns both circulate, so the child will be correcting people.
- Compound names get split by forms and databases, putting the second half in the wrong field.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emaries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Emarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Emarie?
- Emarie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Emmarie is the more common one — 110 births in 2025 against 61 for Emarie.
- How popular is the name Emarie in 2025?
- Emarie ranks #2778 among US girl names in 2025, with 61 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emarie?
- About 1 in every 26,349 US girls born in 2025 was named Emarie — 61 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emarie with classmates?
- Emarie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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