Emory
Emory is a unisex name: 899 girls and 269 boys were given it in 2025 (#339 among girls’ names and #883 among boys’, #567 among all names counting both); 29,762 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Emory every year since 2007.
An estimated 20,600 Americans named Emory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emory mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emory is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use transferred back from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emory?
#883 among boys’ names, 2025
Emory fell from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.14 to 0.16 per 1,000.
1,212 babies in 2024, the peak
Emory peaked in 2024, when 1,212 babies were given it (272 boys, #883 among boys’ names). The 1,168 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 96% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 899 | #339 | 269 | #883 |
| 2024 | 940 | #333 | 272 | #883 |
| 2023 | 841 | #366 | 295 | #831 |
| 2022 | 679 | #468 | 287 | #849 |
| 2021 | 654 | #479 | 293 | #819 |
| 2020 | 693 | #446 | 281 | #820 |
| 2019 | 653 | #481 | 286 | #803 |
| 2018 | 657 | #476 | 288 | #789 |
| 2017 | 466 | #633 | 282 | #807 |
| 2016 | 449 | #655 | 271 | #835 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 456 | #626 | 271 | #830 |
| 2014 | 377 | #742 | 255 | #865 |
| 2013 | 339 | #798 | 232 | #899 |
| 2012 | 302 | #881 | 207 | #972 |
| 2011 | 252 | #1,000 | 174 | #1,073 |
| 2010 | 231 | #1,079 | 184 | #1,049 |
| 2009 | 253 | #1,027 | 165 | #1,122 |
| 2008 | 215 | #1,184 | 133 | #1,307 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,359 | 152 | #1,162 |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,582 | 139 | #1,206 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,934 | 114 | #1,325 |
| 2004 | 119 | #1,631 | 120 | #1,255 |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,863 | 92 | #1,430 |
| 2002 | 83 | #2,064 | 86 | #1,472 |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,174 | 78 | #1,546 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,785 | 97 | #1,321 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,207 | 69 | #1,581 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,284 | 80 | #1,421 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,669 | 64 | #1,581 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,309 | 71 | #1,444 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,885 | 71 | #1,402 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,467 | 70 | #1,397 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,704 | 65 | #1,443 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,729 | 56 | #1,575 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,963 | 57 | #1,525 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,225 | 61 | #1,434 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,011 | 58 | #1,434 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,383 | 57 | #1,374 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 53 | #1,388 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,809 | 53 | #1,347 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,126 | 50 | #1,376 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,019 | 54 | #1,254 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,373 | 49 | #1,333 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,496 | 77 | #1,032 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,380 | 66 | #1,128 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,401 | 78 | #1,027 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,659 | 68 | #1,077 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 64 | #1,089 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,761 | 52 | #1,225 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 61 | #1,071 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 58 | #1,104 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 70 | #982 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 73 | #945 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 63 | #1,018 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 90 | #862 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 83 | #888 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 97 | #786 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 90 | #782 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 81 | #806 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 109 | #711 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,814 | 89 | #787 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 149 | #638 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 140 | #658 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 124 | #692 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 123 | #689 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 130 | #688 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 135 | #659 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 108 | #715 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,347 | 148 | #632 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 133 | #656 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,384 | 141 | #624 |
| 1954 | under 5 | 170 | #559 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 160 | #564 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 143 | #582 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 139 | #588 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,535 | 163 | #529 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 150 | #543 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 202 | #470 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 176 | #512 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 184 | #474 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 158 | #475 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 179 | #453 | |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,590 | 190 | #457 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,261 | 204 | #430 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,609 | 175 | #445 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,542 | 186 | #429 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,439 | 178 | #426 |
| 1938 | under 5 | 170 | #441 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 186 | #417 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 197 | #390 | |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,898 | 174 | #425 |
| 1934 | under 5 | 165 | #440 | |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,881 | 188 | #394 |
| 1932 | under 5 | 227 | #369 | |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,532 | 218 | #379 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,773 | 202 | #412 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,224 | 223 | #387 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,262 | 228 | #394 |
| 1927 | under 5 | 227 | #398 | |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,997 | 224 | #395 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,787 | 262 | #366 |
| 1924 | under 5 | 263 | #372 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 243 | #380 | |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,616 | 263 | #371 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,355 | 261 | #376 |
| 1920 | under 5 | 308 | #335 | |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,068 | 224 | #391 |
| 1918 | under 5 | 226 | #395 | |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,810 | 238 | #361 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 229 | #355 | |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,923 | 225 | #358 |
| 1914 | under 5 | 189 | #336 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 151 | #332 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 117 | #353 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 74 | #314 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 55 | #334 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 57 | #303 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 42 | #350 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 52 | #298 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 39 | #331 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 43 | #309 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 42 | #302 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 32 | #342 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 58 | #242 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 44 | #259 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 52 | #287 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 41 | #272 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 37 | #317 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 39 | #292 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 46 | #267 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 42 | #275 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 40 | #281 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 27 | #341 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 38 | #300 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 23 | #359 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 29 | #323 | |
| 1889 | under 5 | 37 | #277 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 35 | #304 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 33 | #290 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 37 | #280 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 34 | #285 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 38 | #280 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 38 | #267 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 38 | #279 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 42 | #240 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 40 | #267 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Emory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 29,762 Americans recorded as Emory, 36% are girls and 64% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Emory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emory, and how old are they?
20,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 69% of the 29,762 Americans ever recorded as Emory. The median Emory alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 14,171 people named Emory (5,854 women and girls, 8,317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 652 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,840 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Emory born?
The states with the most babies named Emory are Texas, California and North Carolina, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 188 | #960 | 1.2× |
| California | 87 | #969 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 83 | #657 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 68 | #858 | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 60 | #960 | 1.4× |
| Alabama | 54 | #541 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 53 | #600 | 4.2× |
| Virginia | 50 | #416 | 1.9× |
| New York | 34 | #855 | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 32 | #782 | 1.5× |
Where Emory is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emory is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Emory with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 33,091 babies since 1880, Emory is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,168 of their 1,303 babies (90%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Emory
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Emory and names like it
- Compare Emory and EmariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmory peaked in 2024.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emory since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Emory: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Emory.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emory alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.