Emry
Masculine · “immortal”
Emry is given to both — 958 boys and 2,368 girls since 1880. See Emry as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Emry has two possible parents and one of them is unexpectedly grand. Welsh Emrys is the native form of Ambrosius, and in the old Welsh material it belongs to the boy who becomes Merlin.
How old is the name Emry?
Emry first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Emry is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Emry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emry most popular?
Emry peaked in 1881, reaching #866 nationally. Today it ranks #2884, 2,018 places below that high. See the whole 1881 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ambrosios to Emry
The story of Emry
Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British leader named in the earliest accounts of the resistance to the Saxons, and Welsh tradition turned him into Emrys — and then, in the ninth-century Historia Brittonum, into the prophetic boy at Vortigern's tower who is later called Myrddin Emrys and becomes the Merlin of the romances. Emrys has stayed an ordinary Welsh name since. The Emry spelling in American records is more likely a trimming of Emery, whose own record here is long, but the Welsh road is genuinely available.
Meaningscholars disagree
immortal, divine — if the Emrys reading holds
Welsh Emrys is Ambrosius, from Greek ambrosios, 'immortal, belonging to the gods', built on the same root as ambrosia. That reading is settled for Emrys. The competing line takes Emry as a respelling of Emery, from Germanic Emmerich — amal, 'work', and ric, 'power'. Both are real names and the four-letter spelling does not say which one it is standing on.
How the name formed
- Ambrosios
- Ambrosius
- Emrys
- Emry
Related forms: Emrys · Emery · Ambrosios · Ambrogio
Pronouncing Emry
EM-ree
Two syllables, stress on the first. The Welsh Emrys is EM-ris, with the s sounded, which is a noticeably different ending. Emery is three syllables in careful speech and often two in ordinary speech, which is how these names converge.
Nicknames for Emry
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
- 1881
- Most boys named
- 202455 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #866reached in 1881
- Change vs 2024
- −21.8%43 in 2025, from 55
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
- Emrys in Welsh — related form
- Emery in English — related form
- Ambrosios in Greek — related form
- Ambrogio in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois, New York, California.
Emrys among us
people named Emry are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 39,723 born in 2025 was named Emry
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Emry
- #2884
- Emry on the 2025 chart
- #869
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Emry went to 43 boys in 2025, but Emri is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 59, which makes it the 869th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,015 places above the chart.
- Emry43
- Emri16
About 1 boy in 28,950 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 39,723 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
Fashion outlook
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 boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two possible ancestries, both of them documented and both of them interesting.
- Em is a ready short form with a long record for both sexes.
- Four letters, two syllables, and said correctly by everyone at first sight.
- Emry, Emery, Emrys and Emri are all in use and belong to different traditions.
- Its ancestry is genuinely unsettled, so any single meaning is a choice between two.
- Emery is far more common in American records and this spelling gets corrected to it.
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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 900 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 — 43 of the 59 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Emri.
- How popular is the name Emry in 2025?
- Emry ranks #2884 among US boy names in 2025, with 43 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emry?
- About 1 in every 39,723 US boys born in 2025 was named Emry — 43 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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