Ember

#154 for girls in 2025, 1,952 births · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to girls 98.2% of the time

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Peak · girls
2024 · 2,183 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
22,646
since 1946

Ember over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ember has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201946girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1541,952#3,24036
2024#1352,183#3,10439
2023#1691,707#2,95242
2022#1581,836#3,27836
2021#1621,775#2,37357
2020#1871,539#3,34433
2019#1951,541#3,89927
2018#2081,475#4,22624
2017#2891,122#3,99326
2016#3201,021#4,32723
2015#366902#5,28917
2014#430741#7,56210
2013#559523#8,1189
2012#577508#6,00114
2011#667424#8,0799
2010#821326#6,69812
2009#883311—
2008#1,250201—
2007#1,145224—
2006#1,327176#10,6626
2005#1,355160#10,1516
2004#1,436143—
2003#1,526127—
2002#1,82198—
2001#1,92290—
2000#2,27768—
1999#1,96280—
1998#1,84583—
1997#1,94574—
1996#2,01469—
1995#2,36755—
1994#2,20960—
1993#2,41752—
1992#2,57648—
1991#2,55048—
1990#2,15360—
1989#2,07260—
1988#1,50690—
1987#2,49341—
1986#2,97331—
1985#3,08429—
1984#2,05049—
1983#2,36040—
1982#2,32742—
1981#2,19546—
1980#2,65135—
1979#2,02050—
1978#1,98748—
1977#2,46335—
1976#2,29236—
1975#2,56530—
1974#3,42619—
1973#3,12221—
1972#4,09114—
1971#4,12314—
1970#3,43518—
1969#4,41811—
1968#4,22211—
1967#4,9828—
1966#5,2737—
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1964#3,51514—
1963#6,5925—
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1961#4,5469—
1960#5,6966—
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First appearance
1946

The first year at least five girls were named Ember! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1947–1951, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Ember is popular in 1946

No state had 5 or more girls named Ember in 1946, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ember
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 19 spots since 2024 (#135 → #154)
  • 33 spots since 2020 (#187 → #154)
  • 212 spots since 2015 (#366 → #154)
  • Biggest jump: 367 spots in 2009 (#1,250 → #883)
  • Biggest drop: 19 spots in 2025 (#135 → #154)
Rise & fade · girls
78 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1946
  • Peaked 2024 at #135 (2,183 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 742
  • Highest: 1 in 742 girls born in 2024 were named Ember (0.13%)
  • Latest: 1 in 823 girls born in 2025 (0.12%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 48.5% of all girls named Ember (10,992) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s8#3,665 (1946)#3,665
1950s17#4,908 (1952)#5,243
1960s71#3,515 (1964)#4,906
1970s285#1,987 (1978)#2,952
1980s463#1,506 (1988)#2,371
1990s629#1,845 (1998)#2,204
2000s1,598#883 (2009)#1,494
2010s8,583#195 (2019)#443
2020s10,992#135 (2024)#161

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ember in 1946

girls
#3,665
8 births · 1 in 196,413 girls

Top girls' names in 1946

  1. #1Mary67,471
  2. #2Linda52,710
  3. #3Patricia46,297
  4. #4Barbara45,126
  5. #5Carol34,284
  6. #6Sandra31,692
  7. #7Nancy28,345
  8. #8Susan28,267
  9. #9Sharon27,824
  10. #10Judith22,310
  11. #3,665Ember8
More about 1946

girls

1,571,305 girls got a published name in 1946; 1 in 196,413 of them was named Ember, which outranked 35.5% of the 5,686 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ember
  1. #3,430Wynne9
  2. #3,430Zeta9
  3. #3,430Zonia9
  4. #3,665Ember8
  5. #3,665Afton8
  6. #3,665Agapita8
  7. #3,665Aldena8
  8. #3,994Abbey7
  9. #3,994Adah7
  10. #3,994Alan7

Tied with 328 names at #3,665; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1945
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,830Jacalyn#2,742 → #912
  2. ↑ 914Kimberly#1,621 → #707
  3. ↑ 615Suzette#1,032 → #417
  4. ↑ 538Randi#1,356 → #818
  5. ↑ 528Dayle#1,356 → #828
Fallers
  1. ↓ 335Oma#941 → #1,276
  2. ↓ 324Iola#824 → #1,148
  3. ↓ 324Artie#994 → #1,318
  4. ↓ 303Eartha#954 → #1,257
  5. ↓ 301Willia#830 → #1,131

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1946 →