Emry
Feminine · “Not settled”
Emry is given to both — 2,368 girls and 958 boys since 1880. See Emry as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Emry is a short, two-beat name that sits right next to two much older ones: Emery, carried into England by the Normans, and the Welsh Emrys. Trimmed to four letters, it keeps the soft opening of the Em- names and ends on the same light -y that Ruby and Ivy end on. It has been turning up in American records for a few decades now without ever crowding a classroom.
How old is the name Emry?
Emry first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Emry is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,400 people named Emry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emry most popular?
Emry peaked in 2017, reaching #1364 nationally. Today it ranks #1423, 59 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Emmerich to Emry
The story of Emry
The four-letter spelling is a modern American one, but the sound is old. Emmerich was a Germanic name that the Normans reshaped into Aimery and carried to England, where it settled as Emery and Emory and then hardened into a widespread surname — which is how it came back around as a first name in the United States. Running alongside it is Welsh Emrys, the Welsh form of Ambrosius, a name attached to the Latin-speaking Britain of late antiquity. Emry drops the extra syllable from one and the final letter from the other, and lands in a place where both feel like plausible parents.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not settled — two well-documented names stand behind this spelling
Read as a pared-down form of Emery/Emory, it goes back to the Germanic Emmerich, from elements usually given as 'work, labor' and 'power, ruler'. Read as a clipping of the Welsh Emrys, it leads to Latin Ambrosius, from Greek for 'immortal'. Both roads are real; the spelling Emry itself is recent enough that no one can say which one a given family had in mind.
How the name formed
- Emmerich
- Aimery
- Emery
- Emry
Related forms: Emery · Emrys · Emmerich · Émeric · Imre · Amerigo
Pronouncing Emry
EM-ree
Two syllables, stress on the first. Emery is often said the same way in casual American speech, which is why the two spellings get mixed up so readily; the three-syllable EM-uh-ree belongs to the longer spelling.
Nicknames for Emry
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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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 2017169 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1364reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +32.2%152 in 2025, from 115
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.
Emry in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emery in English — related form
- Emrys in Welsh — related form
- Emmerich in German — related form
- Émeric in French — related form
- Imre in Hungarian — related form
- Amerigo in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Emrys among us
people named Emry are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 10,574 born in 2025 was named Emry
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Emry
- #1423
- Emry on the 2025 chart
- #762
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Emry went to 152 girls in 2025, but Emri is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 198, which makes it the 762nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 661 places above the chart.
- Emry152
- Emri46
About 1 girl in 8,118 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 10,574 for Emry 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 Shayne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emry's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shayne climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shayne's path sketches the road Emry is walking now.
Emry 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 Emry is headed
Emry 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.
Emry beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emry in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters, two syllables — easy to say on first hearing and easy for a child to write early.
- Comes with ready-made short forms already in wide use: Em, Emmy, Emmie.
- Sits inside the familiar Em- family, so it sounds known even to people meeting it for the first time.
- The names behind it, Emery and Emrys, both have a documented record stretching back centuries.
- Recognizable in several languages through its relatives — Emmerich, Émeric, Imre, Emrys.
- Expect an extra 'e'. Emery and Emory are the spellings most people know, so this one will need spelling out often, in a lifetime of forms and email addresses.
- Emery and Emory are given to both boys and girls in the US, so some people will not assume a girl from the name alone — worth knowing rather than worrying about.
- Very few others share this exact spelling, which means no built-in recognition and also no need to share it with anyone in the room.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emrys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Emry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Emry?
- Emry is the most-used spelling in US records — 152 of the 198 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Emri.
- How popular is the name Emry in 2025?
- Emry ranks #1423 among US girl names in 2025, with 152 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emry?
- About 1 in every 10,574 US girls born in 2025 was named Emry — 152 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emry with classmates?
- Emry will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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