Emery
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Emery
The superpopularity of Emily and Emma has recently boosted the unisex Emery, especially since it became a celebrity baby name when it was chosen by Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn.
Emery for girls#74 US
Emery now ranks among the girls' Top 100 names in the US, though Emma, Emily, and even Emilia are more popular. Emerson and Emmeline are two other popular girl names in the same vein.
Nickname Emmy or Emmie makes it cute and girlish but even more popular given the legion of little Emmys.
Emery for boys#815 US
Emery is one of the newly popular Em- names that has great potential, though right now for girls more than boys: it received a boost in 2009, a year after Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn used it for one of their daughters.
Emery ranks on the Top 1000 for both boys and girls, but all the way up in the Top 100 for girls and down in the 700s for boys. Many related names are also trending for baby boys, from Emerson to Emrys to Amory to Emmett.
Pronounced EM-er-ee.
As of October 2026, Emery ranked #74 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #70 in 2023, Nameberry popularity #339.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #162 | 2,046 | #687 | 367 |
| 2015 | #134 | 2,424 | #747 | 324 |
| 2016 | #130 | 2,420 | #718 | 341 |
| 2017 | #115 | 2,698 | #771 | 304 |
| 2018 | #93 | 3,008 | #774 | 300 |
| 2019 | #93 | 3,017 | #734 | 328 |
| 2020 | #89 | 2,983 | #739 | 330 |
| 2021 | #90 | 2,920 | #770 | 325 |
| 2022 | #82 | 2,971 | #728 | 356 |
| 2023 | #70 | 3,111 | #751 | 348 |
| 2024 | #70 | 3,197 | #823 | 302 |
| 2025 | #74 | 3,208 | #815 | 305 |
World rankings
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Famous Emerys
- Emery Ann ShadaGirl
relative of Jaden Jeremy Shada
- Emery Hope SehornGirl
daughter of athlete Jason Sehorn and actor/model Angie Harmon
- Emery Ann Osmond (b. 2008)Girl
granddaughter of singer Donny Osmond
- Emery Mattie Curry (b. 2007)Girl
daughter of NFL player Ronald Curry
- Emery GriffithGirl
daughter of TV personality Nathan Griffith of "Teen Mom 2"
- Emery Farryn Abbott (b. 2017)Girl
daughter of musician Josh Abbott
- Emery MolyneuxBoy
English globe,maker
- Emery LehmanBoy
American speed skater
- Emery Neal BrownBoy
American statistician, neuroscientist and anesthesiologist
- Emery RevesBoy
Hungarian,born writer, publisher, literary agent, financier, art collector, and advocate of world federalism
Emery in pop culture
- Emery AshworthGirl
main character in "The Children of Hypnos" by Francesca Zappia
- Emery WhitehillGirl
main character on The CW's "Star,Crossed"
- Emery boardGirl
type of nail file
- Emery ScottGirl
the daughter of Hardin Scott and Tessa Young in The After Series by Anna Todd
- Emery WhirlwindBoy
character from TV series "Northern Exposure"
- Emery StainesBoy
character in the book "The Luminaries" by Eleanor Catton
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- Emery HuangBoy
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- Emery boardBoy
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