Emrey
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- EM-ree
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Emrey is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Emrey mean?
Germanic: variant of Emery, via Norman French from Emmerich
A spelling of Emery, the Norman French form of the Germanic name Emmerich, whose second element ric means 'power'.
Is Emrey a girl's or a boy's name?
Emrey is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Emrey in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 35% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Emrey, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had fewer girls named Emrey than any year since 2008.
Half of all the girls named Emrey in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 339 girls in the US were given Emrey or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #783, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Emrey in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,868 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,901 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
Nicknames for Emrey
- Em
Names like Emrey
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ensley Oakley Emery Wrenley Haisley Paisley Everly Kinsley Finley Adley Tilly Lainey
Other spellings of Emrey
Names related to Emrey
More Germanic names
Amelia Liam Henry Charlotte William Archie Charlie Emma Freddie Ella Harry Millie Albie Matilda Louie Miles
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, “Emrey: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emrey, updated 20 October 2026.