Emerie
Feminine
Emerie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 6,883 girls against 20 boys since 1880.
Emerie is a recent American spelling of Emery, a name the Normans carried into England in the eleventh century and which has been worn as both a given name and a surname ever since. Said aloud it is three unhurried syllables closing on the same bright -ee that Rosie and Emily share, and it arrives with Em and Emmy already attached.
How old is the name Emerie?
Emerie first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Emerie is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 6,800 people named Emerie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emerie most popular?
Emerie peaked in 2024, reaching #516 nationally. Today it ranks #553, 37 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
Where it comes from
From Amalric to Emerie
The story of Emerie
The root is the Germanic name Emmerich, which traveled west and turned up in Normandy as Aimery before crossing to England with the Normans, where it settled into Emery and then hardened into an English surname. The same name went east as well: Hungarian took it as Imre, honored in the eleventh-century royal saint Emeric, and Italian shaped it into Amerigo — the form that gave the Americas their name. Emerie is the newest branch, an American respelling that keeps the old sound and gives it the -ie ending shared by a whole generation of girls' names. It appeared in US records only in the last few decades and has held a modest, level place since.
Meaningscholars disagree
from Germanic elements meaning 'power, ruler' joined to amal
The second element, ric, is agreed on: 'power' or 'ruler'. The first, amal, is read two ways — as an ordinary word for 'work' or 'labor', giving 'work-ruler', and as the name of the Amal, the ruling Gothic line, giving something closer to 'ruler of the Amals'. Both readings have serious support, and neither has pushed the other out.
How the name formed
- Amalric
- Emmerich
- Aimery
- Emery
- Emerie
Related forms: Emmerich · Imre · Aimery · Amerigo · Américo · Emery
Pronouncing Emerie
EM-uh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first. Identical in sound to Emery and Emory; a two-syllable EM-ree also occurs in fast speech.
Nicknames for Emerie
High
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
- 1994
- Most girls named
- 2024596 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #516reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −8.1%548 in 2025, from 596
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.
Emerie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emmerich in German — same name
- Imre in Hungarian — related form
- Aimery in French — same name
- Amerigo in Italian — related form
- Américo in Spanish — related form
- Emery in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, North Carolina.
Emeries among us
people named Emerie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,933 born in 2025 was named Emerie
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 Latrice test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emerie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Latrice climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Latrice's path sketches the road Emerie is walking now.
Emerie 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 Emerie is headed
Emerie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Emerie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emerie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Sounds exactly like Emery, a spelling most Americans already recognize, so it is understood the first time it is said aloud.
- Comes with short forms in long use — Em, Emmy, Emme — none of which need explaining.
- Traceable in the written record for roughly a thousand years, from Germanic Emmerich through Norman Aimery to English Emery.
- Has close relatives in German, Hungarian, French, Italian and Spanish, so it travels without becoming unpronounceable.
- The sound has at least four live spellings — Emery, Emory, Emerie, Emmerie — so expect to spell it out at the pharmacy and on forms, for life. Choosing the -ie form means accepting that most people's first guess will be Emery.
- Emery is given to boys and girls alike in the US. The -ie ending reads as a girl's name to most American eyes, but the spoken name carries no such signal, so a substitute teacher may guess either way.
- It sits inside a crowded Em- family — Emma, Emily, Emerson, Emmy. A child may not meet another Emerie, but she will likely answer to Em alongside two or three others.
- Almost everyone carrying this spelling is still a child, so there are no adults yet to show how it wears on a résumé. The underlying Emery, however, has been doing that job for centuries.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emeries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,800 people named Emerie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Emerie in 2025?
- Emerie ranks #553 among US girl names in 2025, with 548 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emerie?
- About 1 in every 2,933 US girls born in 2025 was named Emerie — 548 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emerie with classmates?
- Emerie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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