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Emmory

Gender
Girl
Say it
EM-or-ee
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Emmory is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “industrious ruler”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

What does Emmory mean?

Germanic: spelling of Emory, itself a spelling of Emery, from Germanic Emmerich

“industrious ruler”

A spelling of Emery, which came to England with the Normans as Aimeri.

Meaning borrowed from Emory. More on Wiktionary.

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

Emmory is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Emmory in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,360among girls
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Emmory, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.

Half of all the girls named Emmory in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 5,129 girls in the US were given Emmory or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #49, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.

2005Busiest: 18 in 20132025
Emmory in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
202410#9,551
202310#9,611
202215#7,276
20218#11,141
202015#7,208
20199#10,467
20188#11,422
20177#12,709
201610#10,109
201515#7,610
20147#13,063
201318#6,725
20127#13,477
20110–
20106#14,953
20096#15,236
200811#10,080
20077#13,918
20066#15,147
20055#16,455

Nicknames for Emmory

Names like Emmory

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

Other spellings of Emmory

Names related to Emmory

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, “Emmory: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emmory, updated 20 October 2026.