# Ember (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ember/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 23,072 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 426 / 22,646 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,327, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 424 | 669 |
| 2012 | 508 | 577 |
| 2013 | 523 | 559 |
| 2014 | 741 | 431 |
| 2015 | 902 | 366 |
| 2016 | 1,021 | 320 |
| 2017 | 1,122 | 289 |
| 2018 | 1,475 | 208 |
| 2019 | 1,541 | 195 |
| 2020 | 1,539 | 187 |
| 2021 | 1,775 | 163 |
| 2022 | 1,836 | 158 |
| 2023 | 1,707 | 169 |
| 2024 | 2,183 | 135 |
| 2025 | 1,952 | 154 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,274 |
| 2012 | 14 | 6,093 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,312 |
| 2014 | 10 | 7,720 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,359 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,364 |
| 2017 | 26 | 4,020 |
| 2018 | 24 | 4,266 |
| 2019 | 27 | 3,924 |
| 2020 | 33 | 3,361 |
| 2021 | 57 | 2,388 |
| 2022 | 36 | 3,293 |
| 2023 | 42 | 2,966 |
| 2024 | 39 | 3,126 |
| 2025 | 36 | 3,266 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 2,432 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1,483 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,360 |
| 2014 | 35 | 1,016 |
| 2015 | 34 | 1,033 |
| 2016 | 71 | 594 |
| 2017 | 64 | 648 |
| 2018 | 90 | 478 |
| 2019 | 82 | 500 |
| 2020 | 84 | 478 |
| 2021 | 123 | 373 |
| 2022 | 111 | 382 |
| 2023 | 109 | 381 |
| 2024 | 194 | 247 |
| 2025 | 192 | 242 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.