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Emri vs Emry

American parents have registered 3,326 Emrys since 1880, against 699 Emris. Emry is still ahead, with 195 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emri against Emry, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emri Emry

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

Emry has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Emri had 6 and Emry had 12.

Side by side

  Emri Emry
Total US births 6993,326
Most in one year 62212
Babies in 2025 62195
Estimated living today 7003,200
Median age today 78
Peak year 20212017
Best rank 3,002nd girls1,364th girls
Rank in 2025 3,342nd1,423rd
First recorded 19991881
Girls / boys 623 / 762,368 / 958

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: Emri and Emry.