girls:
37.4k births since 1906
#708 (88th percentile)
boys:
19.8k births since 1880
#824 (82nd percentile)
overall:
57.2k births since 1880
#988 (87th percentile)
The name Emery is the #988 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 57,192 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #708 (87.6% percentile) for all time with 37,399 births since 1906. For boys, it ranks #824 (82.0% percentile) for all time with 19,793 births since 1880.
Emery has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1906 for girls).
The name Emery has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (65.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 89.9% of babies named Emery were girls. Interestingly, until around 1999, the name was more popular for boys (94.4% boys from 1880 to 1998), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (85.2% girls from 1999 to 2023).
For girls, Emery reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 92.9% percentile (ranked #68) with 1,775 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,775 births per million (ranked 92.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1980, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Emery is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #68 (92.9% percentile) with 1,775 births per million.
For boys, Emery reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 46.4% percentile (ranked #287) with 299 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 489 births per million (ranked 25.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Emery ranks #590 for boys (35.3% percentile) with 189 births per million, which is 38.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emery".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Emery. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.7% confident that Emery is pronounced as EH-mer-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-mree, at 21.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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