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Emerie vs Emery

American parents have registered 64,249 Emerys since 1880, against 6,903 Emeries. Emery is still ahead, with 3,513 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emerie 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 2024, when Emerie had 596 and Emery had 3,512.

Side by side

  Emerie Emery
Total US births 6,90364,249
Most in one year 5963,513
Babies in 2025 5533,513
Estimated living today 6,90055,000
Median age today 68
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 516th girls74th girls
Rank in 2025 553rd74th
First recorded 19941880
Girls / boys 6,883 / 2043,837 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Emerys alive today are over 8; half the Emeries are over 6. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Emerie Emery
England and Wales 35211
Scotland 310

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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