Emery
Meaning
traditionally "industrious ruler"
The story
Emery is an old name wearing new clothes. It descends from the Germanic Emmerich, traditionally read as industrious ruler, and it arrived in England with enough medieval force to leave Emery behind as a surname. Its American life has come in two acts. It appears steadily in the early records, the sort of solid, unshowy name a shopkeeper might have carried around 1900, then thinned out through the middle of the twentieth century. The revival is thoroughly modern: the records begin to stir again in the 1990s, and since the 2000s Emery has climbed sharply, reaching its highest point ever in the current decade, worn these days mostly by girls, who have claimed its soft ending as their own. Few names manage the trick twice: respectable a century ago, fresh again today, industrious indeed.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Emery peaked in the 2020s.
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Popularity in Brazil
78 people · the #49,053 first name in Brazil · median age 56
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Emery
Most people given the name Emery in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Emery deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Emery truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Emery fits with your family’s names and surname.
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