Emory — #884 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Emory

The Social Security Administration has registered 18,700 babies named Emory between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Emory currently holds the #884 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 308 babies received it in a single year. Emory is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 9,889 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emory performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,502 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Emory shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 3,275 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Emory in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emory in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 18,700 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.