Emery
For 2025 the count puts Emery at #74 nationwide, peaking as we speak. First recorded 1906, best year 2025, 43,837 bearers across the whole run.


What Emery carries
Emery · Teutonic
“work rule”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Emery’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Emery, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Emery since 1906
Emery is at its all-time peak right now: #74 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Emery is most common
The state that gives Emery most often, per girls born there, is Wyoming (1.11% in 2025); South Dakota and Vermont are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Emery
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Leonardo
#91 in 2025 · Teutonic
Ella
#29 in 2025 · Teutonic
Axel
#79 in 2025 · Teutonic
Audrey
#86 in 2025 · Teutonic
Adeline
#59 in 2025 · Teutonic
Charlie
#133 in 2025 · Teutonic
Amelia
#4 in 2025 · Teutonic
Aubrey
#146 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with E · Teutonic names · all names
About Emery
How popular is the name Emery?
For 2025 the count puts Emery at #74 nationwide, peaking as we speak. The chart above draws the whole run since 1906, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Emery mean?
“work rule” is the meaning our source sets down, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Emery?
The recipe puts Leonardo first, then Axel, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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