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Emrie vs Emry

American parents have registered 3,326 Emrys since 1880, against 1,717 Emries. Emry is still ahead, with 195 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emrie 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

Of the 46 years in which either name was published, Emry for 45 years and Emrie for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Emrie Emry
Total US births 1,7173,326
Most in one year 166212
Babies in 2025 96195
Estimated living today 1,7003,200
Median age today 88
Peak year 20172017
Best rank 1,387th girls1,364th girls
Rank in 2025 1,990th1,423rd
First recorded 19981881
Girls / boys 1,712 / 52,368 / 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: Emrie and Emry.