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Emmery

Gender
Girl
Say it
EM-er-ee
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#3,130 for girls

Emmery is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “work and power”. In 2025 it ranked 3,130th for girls in the US (51 babies).

What does Emmery mean?

Germanic: spelling of Emery, from the Germanic name Amalric

“work and power”

Emery came to England with the Normans as a form of the Germanic name Amalric.

Is Emmery a girl's or a boy's name?

Emmery is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 51 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Emmery in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,130among girls
Babies in 2025
51about 1 in 32,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 3% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 51 girls in the US were named Emmery, making it the 3,130th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,966th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 71 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.

Half of all the girls named Emmery in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 5,129 girls in the US were given Emmery or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #49, up from #3,130 for this spelling alone.

1991Busiest: 71 in 20142025
Emmery in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202551#3,130
202467#2,607
202353#3,091
202256#2,956
202131#4,409
202054#2,966
201959#2,814
201853#3,049
201759#2,835
201653#3,100
201567#2,646
201471#2,515
201354#3,041
201254#3,093
201153#3,131
201042#3,688
200950#3,297
200832#4,646
200728#5,095
200622#5,904
20059#10,915
200410#9,887
200318#6,294
20027#12,181
20017#12,049
20007#11,794
19998#10,338
199813#7,099
19977#10,831
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19917#10,263

Nicknames for Emmery

Names like Emmery

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Emmery

Names related to Emmery

More Germanic names

Every Germanic name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Emmery: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emmery, updated 20 October 2026.