girls:
74 births since 2002
#5642 (1st percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1918
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
80 births since 1918
#7659 (1st percentile)
The name Emra is the #7,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 80 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,642 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 74 births since 2002. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1918.
Emra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for boys and 2002 for girls). Birth data for Emra is available in 10 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (9 years for girls and 1 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 Emra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.5% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 2002, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1918 to 2001), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2002 to 2023).
For girls, Emra reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #950) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Emra ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 86.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Emra reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #530) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1918.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emra".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Emra is pronounced as EH-mruh, which has 2 syllables.
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