# Emery (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/emery/  
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 | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “vigor”, “bravery”, “ruler”, “home” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɛm(ə)ɹi/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Amery, Amory, Emory, Emry, Emereigh |
| US babies named this | 64,249 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 20,412 / 43,837 (68% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 211, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From medieval Germanic personal names, either a variant of Amory, from Amalric, Proto-Germanic *amal (“vigor, bravery”) (compare *ammōną) + Old High German rīhhi (“ruler”), or of Henry, from Old High German Heimrich, from heim (“home”) + rīhhi (“ruler”).

## What it means

Emery is grouped under king.

## 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 | 1,172 | 271 |
| 2012 | 1,485 | 211 |
| 2013 | 1,675 | 195 |
| 2014 | 2,046 | 162 |
| 2015 | 2,424 | 134 |
| 2016 | 2,420 | 130 |
| 2017 | 2,698 | 115 |
| 2018 | 3,009 | 94 |
| 2019 | 3,018 | 93 |
| 2020 | 2,984 | 89 |
| 2021 | 2,921 | 90 |
| 2022 | 2,973 | 82 |
| 2023 | 3,115 | 70 |
| 2024 | 3,207 | 70 |
| 2025 | 3,208 | 74 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 322 | 712 |
| 2012 | 367 | 649 |
| 2013 | 318 | 734 |
| 2014 | 367 | 687 |
| 2015 | 324 | 748 |
| 2016 | 341 | 718 |
| 2017 | 304 | 771 |
| 2018 | 300 | 774 |
| 2019 | 328 | 735 |
| 2020 | 330 | 739 |
| 2021 | 325 | 771 |
| 2022 | 357 | 727 |
| 2023 | 349 | 749 |
| 2024 | 305 | 820 |
| 2025 | 305 | 815 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 8 | 2,966 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,711 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2023 | 13 | 2,063 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 27 | 1,197 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,263 |
| 2025 | 20 | 1,359 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 埃默里
- French: Émeric, Aymeric
- German: Emmerich
- Hungarian: Imre
- Italian: Amerigo
- Polish: Emeryk

## People named Emery

- Emery Lehman, American speed skater
- Emery Roth, American architect (1871–1948)
- Emery Molyneux, English globemaker (died 1598)
- Emery Clarence Leonard, American botanist (1892-1968)
- Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)
- Mel Patton, American athletics competitor (1924-2014)

## 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.