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Emery
Pronounced /ˈɛm(ə)ɹi/
Rank in 2024
#824
Born in 2024
302
Peak year
2012 · #650
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:3,197 in 2024 (#70)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 302 boys were named Emery, about 1 in every 5,680.
- It peaked in 2012 with 367 babies, ranked #650.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 20,100 boys 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.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 4,462 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Silent: 2,912 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,475 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,239 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,257 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,902 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,943 babies, 0.18 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.