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Emeri vs Emery

American parents have registered 64,249 Emerys since 1880, against 2,670 Emeris. Emery is still ahead, with 3,513 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emeri against Emery, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emeri Emery

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Emery has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Emeri had 46 and Emery had 533.

Side by side

  Emeri Emery
Total US births 2,67064,249
Most in one year 2043,513
Babies in 2025 1643,513
Estimated living today 2,70055,000
Median age today 88
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 1,269th girls74th girls
Rank in 2025 1,458th74th
First recorded 19911880
Girls / boys 2,526 / 14443,837 / 20,412

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emeri and Emery.