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Emery
Pronounced /ˈɛm(ə)ɹi/
Rank in 2024
#70
Born in 2024
3,197
Peak year
2024 · #70
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:302 in 2024 (#824)
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 3,197 girls were named Emery, about 1 in every 505.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It first shows up in the records in 1906.
- 40,609 girls have been named Emery since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Emery per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 1.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 51 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 28 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 31 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 63 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 464 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,502 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 32,470 babies, 1.60 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
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”).
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages, today often transferred back from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of 2000s usage, also associated with the mineral emery.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɛm(ə)ɹi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Emery, CC BY-SA 4.0.