Emory

Where Emory comes from

The dictionaries list Emory as a given name — a male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use transferred back from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #267 among boys — 40 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #237
    42 babies named Emory — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2007
    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.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use transferred back from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Emory turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.