Emory

Where Emory comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Emory.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Emory through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #267 among boys, with 40 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #237
    42 babies named Emory, its best rank.
  3. 2007
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use transferred back from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Emory in Wikidata.

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.