Empress
Empress was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,304 among girls’ names; 1,753 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Empress and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Empress by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Empress?
#2,304 among girls’ names, 2025
Empress rose from #2,660 in 2015 to #2,304 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 37.5 to 49.2 per million.
157 babies in 2019, the peak
Empress peaked in 2019, when 157 girls were given it, #1,424 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,304 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,017 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,753 | 72.9 |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,735 | 73.2 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,700 | 74.4 |
| 2020 | 135 | #1,564 | 83.5 |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,424 | 93.5 |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,880 | 62.9 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,865 | 63.1 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,040 | 54.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,660 | 37.5 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,119 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,025 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,008 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,280 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,224 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,399 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,208 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,417 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,594 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,623 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,956 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,128 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,518 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,937 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,834 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,284 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,230 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,975 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,345 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,116 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,083 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,930 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,949 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,621 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,226 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,987 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,474 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Empress a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Empress has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Empress: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Empress, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,753 Americans ever recorded as Empress. The median Empress alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 939 people named Empress (931 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,109 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 71 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 379 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,290 |
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 Empress born?
The states with the most babies named Empress are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 13 | #1,137 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,090 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,253 | 2.4× |
| New York | 5 | #2,192 | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,243 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,531 | 0.4× |
Where Empress is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Empress is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1986 it was given 2.4 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 girls’ 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 Empress 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 1,890 babies since 1880, Empress is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 79 babies (100%), 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 Empress
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 Empress and names like it
- Compare Empress and EmpryssBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmpress peaked in 2019.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Empress since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Empress.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Empress alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.