Embry
Mostly girls · EM-bree · Germanic
Embry is a name of Germanic origin, meaning “work + power”. In 2025 it ranked 4,986th for girls in the US (26 babies).
What does Embry mean?
Germanic: English surname, a form of Emery
“work + power”
Embry Call is one of the Quileute wolf pack in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels.
- Say it
- EM-bree
Is Embry a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Embry has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 26 girls in the US.
How popular is Embry in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,986among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 26about 1 in 62,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 36% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 26 girls in the US were named Embry, making it the 4,986th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 65 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had fewer girls named Embry than any year since 2009.
Half of all the girls named Embry in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 51 girls in the US were given Embry or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,538, up from #4,986 for this spelling alone.
In 2010, 48% of the babies named Embry in the US were girls. By 2024 it was 80%, with more girls than boys since 2011.
Embry in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,038 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,743 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,106 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,734 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,167 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,551 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,646 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,014 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,934 |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,177 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,717 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,701 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,522 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,780 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,106 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
Names like Embry
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Emery Everly Tilly Emberly Emry Landry Emmy Ensley Oakley Blakely Murphy Elodie
Other spellings of Embry
Names related to Embry
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