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
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 2,183 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 22,646since 1946
Ember over time
Rank among girls' names. Ember has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #154 | 1,952 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | #135 | 2,183 | #3,104 | 39 |
| 2023 | #169 | 1,707 | #2,952 | 42 |
| 2022 | #158 | 1,836 | #3,278 | 36 |
| 2021 | #162 | 1,775 | #2,373 | 57 |
| 2020 | #187 | 1,539 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2019 | #195 | 1,541 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #208 | 1,475 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #289 | 1,122 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #320 | 1,021 | #4,327 | 23 |
| 2015 | #366 | 902 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #430 | 741 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #559 | 523 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #577 | 508 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #667 | 424 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #821 | 326 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #883 | 311 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,250 | 201 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,145 | 224 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,327 | 176 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #1,355 | 160 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,436 | 143 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,526 | 127 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,922 | 90 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,277 | 68 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,962 | 80 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,845 | 83 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,945 | 74 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,014 | 69 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,367 | 55 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,209 | 60 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,417 | 52 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,576 | 48 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,550 | 48 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,153 | 60 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,072 | 60 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,506 | 90 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,493 | 41 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,973 | 31 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,050 | 49 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,360 | 40 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,327 | 42 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,195 | 46 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,651 | 35 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,020 | 50 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,987 | 48 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,463 | 35 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,292 | 36 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,565 | 30 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,123 | 14 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,435 | 18 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
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| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
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| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
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| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
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| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
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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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alaska#139 · 1 in 390
- Montana#204 · 1 in 590
- Kansas#290 · 1 in 1,147
- Oregon#334 · 1 in 1,303
- Utah#336 · 1 in 1,360
Best ever in a state: #8 in Wyoming, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #139 | 6 | 1 in 390 |
| Montana | #204 | 5 | 1 in 590 |
| Kansas | #290 | 12 | 1 in 1,147 |
| Oregon | #334 | 12 | 1 in 1,303 |
| Utah | #336 | 14 | 1 in 1,360 |
| Idaho | #381 | 5 | 1 in 1,354 |
| Colorado | #384 | 15 | 1 in 1,589 |
| Nebraska | #436 | 5 | 1 in 1,641 |
| Oklahoma | #462 | 9 | 1 in 1,913 |
| Nevada | #468 | 6 | 1 in 1,910 |
| Washington | #501 | 14 | 1 in 2,240 |
| Iowa | #506 | 6 | 1 in 2,204 |
| Michigan | #625 | 12 | 1 in 3,562 |
| Indiana | #687 | 9 | 1 in 3,522 |
| Pennsylvania | #709 | 13 | 1 in 4,202 |
| Ohio | #726 | 13 | 1 in 4,188 |
| Missouri | #737 | 7 | 1 in 4,001 |
| Arizona | #753 | 9 | 1 in 3,725 |
| Virginia | #894 | 7 | 1 in 5,242 |
| Texas | #933 | 30 | 1 in 5,556 |
| Florida | #1,028 | 13 | 1 in 6,333 |
| California | #1,045 | 32 | 1 in 6,821 |
| New York | #2,264 | 5 | 1 in 18,955 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ember
- 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)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 2024 at #135 (2,183 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
- Highest: 1 in 742 girls born in 2024 were named Ember (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 823 girls born in 2025 (0.12%)
- 48.5% of all girls named Ember (10,992) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 8 | #3,665 (1946) | #3,665 |
| 1950s | 17 | #4,908 (1952) | #5,243 |
| 1960s | 71 | #3,515 (1964) | #4,906 |
| 1970s | 285 | #1,987 (1978) | #2,952 |
| 1980s | 463 | #1,506 (1988) | #2,371 |
| 1990s | 629 | #1,845 (1998) | #2,204 |
| 2000s | 1,598 | #883 (2009) | #1,494 |
| 2010s | 8,583 | #195 (2019) | #443 |
| 2020s | 10,992 | #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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 5,907 of them was named Ember, which outranked 95.6% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.