Fun Facts About the Name Emerie
- More than 6 thousand babies named Emerie: U.S. records list 6,899 babies given the name Emerie from 1880 through 2025. Even 20 boys received the name Emerie - about 1 boy for every 344 girls.
What Does the Name Emerie Mean?
Emerie is a modern English spelling of Emery, a given name and surname that comes from the Norman French personal name Emery. That Old French name goes back to the Germanic compound Amalric, also found as Amalaric. The usual explanation divides it into amal, commonly glossed as 'work,' and ric, meaning 'ruler' or 'power.' Taken literally, the compound means 'work-ruler' or 'ruler of work'; the customary English meaning is 'industrious ruler.'
The first element is not completely certain. It is sometimes connected instead with the Amali, the Gothic royal dynasty, so that Amalric would mean 'ruler of the Amali.' That would make the familiar 'industrious ruler' a later interpretation rather than a direct translation. A similar German name, Emmerich, is built from Old High German ermen 'whole, universal' and rîhhi 'ruler,' giving 'universal ruler'; it is sometimes confused with Emery but is generally treated as a separate origin.
Emerie Name History & Origins
The Germanic name behind Emery is recorded in early medieval Europe as Amalaric or Amalric. Amalaric was a Visigothic king in the early sixth century, and the name belongs to the same royal naming tradition as other Germanic compounds ending in -ric, 'ruler.' Through medieval Latin and Old French, the name took forms such as Amauri, Amaury, and Emery. After the Norman Conquest, it was carried to England, where it appears as a personal name and later became the hereditary surname Emery, along with spellings like Emory and Amery.
Emery returned as a first name in the 19th century, when English speakers commonly turned surnames into given names. The spelling Emerie belongs to that later English given-name tradition rather than to the medieval French or Germanic forms. It follows the pattern of respelling a final -y as -ie, a common way of marking a feminine name in English. Its history is therefore tied to Emery, not to a separate medieval name.
Related forms in other languages include French Amaury, Italian Amerigo, and the similar German Emmerich. The Italian form is familiar from the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, whose name was given to the Americas, but that belongs to the wider family of the name rather than to Emerie's own path. The German Emmerich, associated with Saint Emeric of Hungary, comes from a different Germanic first element and is not the usual source of Emery or Emerie.
How Popular is the Name Emerie?
Emerie recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2024. Its best rank was #516 in 2024.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #553 | 548 | 0.0341% |
| 2024 | #516 | 594 | 0.0368% |
| 2023 | #557 | 543 | 0.0339% |
| 2022 | #590 | 509 | 0.0311% |
| 2021 | #629 | 470 | 0.0287% |
| 2020 | #600 | 485 | 0.0300% |
| 2019 | #635 | 462 | 0.0275% |
| 2018 | #690 | 421 | 0.0248% |
| 2017 | #701 | 413 | 0.0239% |
| 2016 | #733 | 389 | 0.0220% |
| 2015 | #787 | 358 | 0.0201% |
| 2014 | #918 | 294 | 0.0165% |
| 2013 | #948 | 267 | 0.0152% |
| 2012 | #1,232 | 197 | 0.0112% |
| 2011 | #1,459 | 154 | 0.0088% |
| 2010 | #1,448 | 157 | 0.0088% |
| 2009 | #1,664 | 134 | 0.0073% |
| 2008 | #2,109 | 96 | 0.0051% |
| 2007 | #2,200 | 90 | 0.0047% |
| 2006 | #2,519 | 73 | 0.0038% |
| 2005 | #2,840 | 58 | 0.0031% |
| 2004 | #3,457 | 43 | 0.0023% |
| 2003 | #4,340 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 2002 | #4,210 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 2001 | #7,073 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2000 | #7,712 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1999 | #9,746 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1998 | #9,522 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #11,198 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1996 | #14,187 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #12,256 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #12,579 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2022 | #12,898 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #12,835 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2006 | #12,606 | 5 | 0.0002% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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