Emyr
Emyr was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,908 among boys’ names; 127 Americans have been recorded with it since 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emyr by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emyr mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Emyr is “a male given name”
/ˈɛmɨ̞r/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emyr?
#4,908 among boys’ names, 2025
Emyr rose from #12,623 in 2015 to #4,908 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 11.7 per million.
21 babies in 2024, the peak
Emyr peaked in 2024, when 21 boys were given it, #4,745 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,908 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,745 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,521 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,692 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,425 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,742 | 7.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,170 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,129 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,623 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,123 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #11,351 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Emyr a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emyr has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emyr: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emyr, and how old are they?
An estimated 126 Americans named Emyr and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,747 babies since 1880, Emyr is the second most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 566 babies (3.5%), again the second 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 Emyr
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.
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