Emrys
Emrys is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 157 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,482 among girls’ names and #1,260 among boys’, #2,304 among all names counting both); 1,651 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Emrys and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emrys by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emrys mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Emrys is “a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Ambrose” Its etymology gives the sense “immortal, divine” (ἀμβρόσιος).
From Proto-Brythonic *Ėmrös, from Latin Ambrosius, from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrósios, “immortal, divine”).
/ˈɛmrɨ̞s/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emrys?
#1,260 among boys’ names, 2025
Emrys rose from #2,416 in 2015 to #1,260 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.7 to 91.9 per million.
226 babies in 2024, the peak
Emrys peaked in 2024, when 226 babies were given it (185 boys, #1,141 among boys’ names). The 188 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,482 | 157 | #1,260 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,715 | 185 | #1,141 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,592 | 107 | #1,624 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,143 | 85 | #1,861 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,758 | 123 | #1,463 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,927 | 84 | #1,790 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,803 | 102 | #1,614 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,607 | 79 | #1,889 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,117 | 68 | #2,056 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,244 | 67 | #2,098 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,098 | 53 | #2,416 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,615 | 58 | #2,279 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,501 | 60 | #2,185 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,540 | 39 | #2,971 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #9,940 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,914 | 9 | #8,329 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 7 | #10,166 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #13,122 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #12,608 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #11,970 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #9,718 |
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 Emrys a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,651 Americans recorded as Emrys, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Emrys: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emrys, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,651 Americans ever recorded as Emrys. The median Emrys alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 772 people named Emrys (165 women and girls, 607 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 730 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 94 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,550 |
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 Emrys born?
The states with the most babies named Emrys are California, Florida and Texas, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,320 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,213 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,793 | 0.5× |
| New York | 9 | #1,232 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #888 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,031 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 7 | #906 | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #644 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 6 | #793 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #961 | 0.1× |
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 Emrys 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,717 babies since 1880, Emrys is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 188 of their 199 babies (94%), 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 Emrys
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 Emrys and names like it
- Compare Emrys and EmrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmrys peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emrys since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Emrys: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Emrys.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emrys alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.