Empress
#2,298 for girls in 2025, 79 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 157 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,753since 1986
Empress over time
Rank among girls' names. Empress has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,298 | 79 |
| 2024 | #2,011 | 97 |
| 2023 | #1,750 | 117 |
| 2022 | #1,731 | 120 |
| 2021 | #1,698 | 122 |
| 2020 | #1,559 | 135 |
| 2019 | #1,423 | 157 |
| 2018 | #1,878 | 107 |
| 2017 | #1,863 | 109 |
| 2016 | #2,033 | 97 |
| 2015 | #2,646 | 67 |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 |
| 2012 | #3,988 | 38 |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 |
| 2006 | #5,545 | 24 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
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| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Empress! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1989, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Empress is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#787 · 1 in 3,687
- Louisiana#845 · 1 in 3,721
- Georgia#845 · 1 in 4,117
- Tennessee#990 · 1 in 5,204
- North Carolina#1,120 · 1 in 6,439
Best ever in a state: #519 in Georgia, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #787 | 6 | 1 in 3,687 |
| Georgia | #845 | 11 | 1 in 4,117 |
| Louisiana | #845 | 5 | 1 in 3,721 |
| Tennessee | #990 | 6 | 1 in 5,204 |
| North Carolina | #1,120 | 7 | 1 in 6,439 |
| Florida | #1,133 | 12 | 1 in 6,967 |
| New York | #1,226 | 11 | 1 in 7,386 |
| Texas | #1,337 | 18 | 1 in 8,638 |
| California | #2,840 | 6 | 1 in 29,088 |
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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 Empress
- 287 spots since 2024 (#2,011 → #2,298)
- 739 spots since 2020 (#1,559 → #2,298)
- 348 spots since 2015 (#2,646 → #2,298)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2019 at #1,423 (157 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,690 girls born in 2019 were named Empress (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,345 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.9% of all girls named Empress (734) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 10 | #10,912 (1986) | #11,637 |
| 1990s | 109 | #5,219 (1999) | #8,698 |
| 2000s | 230 | #4,179 (2008) | #5,888 |
| 2010s | 734 | #1,423 (2019) | #2,937 |
| 2020s | 670 | #1,559 (2020) | #1,841 |
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.
Empress in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 13,450 of them was named Empress, which outranked 90.4% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,680Temperance123
- #1,680Walker123
- #1,680Yuri123
- #1,698Empress122
- #1,698Bree122
- #1,698Danae122
- #1,698Jailyn122
- #1,710Annalia121
- #1,710Cienna121
- #1,710Emori121
Tied with 11 names at #1,698; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.