Emery

Where Emery comes from

From medieval Germanic personal names, either a variant of Amory, from Amalric, Proto-Germanic *amal (“vigor, bravery”) (compare *ammōną) + Old High German rīhhi (“ruler”), or of Henry, from Old High German Heimrich, from heim (“home”) + rīhhi (“ruler”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Emery
  • Germanic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1871
    Emery Roth born
    American architect
  2. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,951 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1996
    Emery Lehman born
    American speed skater
  4. 1998
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2024
    Peak, #70
    3,207 babies named Emery — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A surname transferred from the given name.
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, today often transferred back from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of 2000s usage, also associated with the mineral emery.
  • A place in the United States:
  • A town in Emery County, Utah.
Namesakes
  • Emery Lehman · American speed skater, born 1996
  • Emery Roth · American architect, 1871–1948
  • Emery Molyneux · English globemaker, 1600–1598
  • Emery d'Amboise · Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, 1434–1512
  • Emery Welshman · Guyanese footballer, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.