girls:
18.5k births since 1946
#1084 (81st percentile)
boys:
349 births since 2005
#4237 (8th percentile)
overall:
18.8k births since 1946
#1874 (76th percentile)
The name Ember is the #1,874 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,829 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 75.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,084 (81.0% percentile) for all time with 18,480 births since 1946. For boys, it ranks #4,237 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 349 births since 2005.
Ember first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for girls and 2005 for boys). Birth data for Ember is available in 66 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023 (66 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ember has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ember reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 83.7% percentile (ranked #157) with 1,020 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 1,020 births per million (ranked 83.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ember is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #165 (82.7% percentile) with 970 births per million.
For boys, Ember reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 5.6% percentile (ranked #878) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 30 births per million (ranked 5.6% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ember ranks #876 for boys (3.8% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 71.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ember".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ember. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Ember is pronounced as EHM-ber, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eem-BER, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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