Emrys
#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births · #1,260 for boys in 2025, 157 births
Given to boys 79.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 185 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,310since 1997
Emrys over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,460 | 31 | #1,260 | 157 |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 | #1,140 | 185 |
| 2023 | #4,565 | 30 | #1,623 | 107 |
| 2022 | #4,108 | 35 | #1,861 | 85 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 | #1,461 | 123 |
| 2020 | #4,880 | 26 | #1,788 | 84 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #1,614 | 102 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | #2,049 | 68 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #2,277 | 58 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #2,182 | 60 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #2,954 | 39 |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #12,553 | 5 | |
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| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Emrys! It came in at #9,265, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–2008, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Emrys is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#728 · 1 in 5,627
- Pennsylvania#1,219 · 1 in 11,172
- Ohio#1,256 · 1 in 11,314
- California#1,443 · 1 in 16,929
- New York#1,765 · 1 in 18,710
Best ever in a state: #352 in Idaho, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #728 | 5 | 1 in 5,627 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,219 | 5 | 1 in 11,172 |
| Ohio | #1,256 | 5 | 1 in 11,314 |
| California | #1,443 | 12 | 1 in 16,929 |
| New York | #1,765 | 5 | 1 in 18,710 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Emrys
- 120 spots since 2024 (#1,140 → #1,260)
- 528 spots since 2020 (#1,788 → #1,260)
- 1,152 spots since 2015 (#2,412 → #1,260)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2024 at #1,140 (185 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,313 boys born in 2024 were named Emrys (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,879 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 56.6% of all boys named Emrys (741) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,265 |
| 2000s | 22 | #9,864 (2009) | #11,486 |
| 2010s | 542 | #1,614 (2019) | #3,520 |
| 2020s | 741 | #1,140 (2024) | #1,522 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Emrys in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 98,727 of them was named Emrys, which outranked 62.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,414Zenovia18
- #6,414Ziyana18
- #6,414Zyriah18
- #6,698Emrys17
- #6,698Aaleah17
- #6,698Aamira17
- #6,698Aanaya17
- #7,025Addilynne16
- #7,025Addisynn16
- #7,025Adi16
Tied with 326 names at #6,698; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 17,590 of them was named Emrys, which outranked 88.6% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,606Noam103
- #1,606Rudra103
- #1,606Taylen103
- #1,614Emrys102
- #1,614Freddie102
- #1,614Kelton102
- #1,614Lloyd102
- #1,624Advik101
- #1,624Aram101
- #1,624Carsyn101
Tied with 9 names at #1,614; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.