Meaning not yet researched.
Ember: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,952 in 2025. Its best rank was #135 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #135 in 2024; #154 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Ember in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#154 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #135.
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Ember: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,952 girls in 2025. Peak: #135 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 2,183 (2024).
In 2025, 1,952 US girls were named Ember, making it the 154th most common girls’ name of the year, down 19 places from #135 in 2024. That is 231 fewer than the 2,183 girls named Ember in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #135, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,183. For comparison, it was #366 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ember in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 8 babies. In all, 23,072 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 11,235 babies named Ember.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16,151 US girls were named Ember; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 2,183. In 2025 that was about 1 in 823 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ember ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #18 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 17 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Embyr are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Embyr (110).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ember in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 10 | #18 | #108 |
| Alaska | 13 | #32 | — |
| South Dakota | 18 | #41 | — |
| Montana | 16 | #41 | #55 |
| Idaho | 35 | #42 | #87 |
| Missouri | 79 | #55 | #191 |
| New Mexico | 20 | #56 | #407 |
| West Virginia | 20 | #64 | #199 |
| Hawaii | 10 | #72 | — |
| Kansas | 37 | #75 | #159 |
| Indiana | 74 | #77 | #280 |
| Oregon | 39 | #78 | #140 |
| North Dakota | 11 | #83 | #86 |
| Arkansas | 31 | #84 | #133 |
| Nevada | 24 | #88 | #301 |
| Colorado | 56 | #90 | #220 |
| Kentucky | 43 | #97 | #378 |
| Washington | 61 | #102 | #265 |
| Maine | 10 | #104 | — |
| Iowa | 30 | #105 | #283 |
| Minnesota | 47 | #106 | #917 |
| Nebraska | 20 | #107 | #186 |
| Virginia | 65 | #110 | #367 |
| Ohio | 91 | #115 | #416 |
| Wisconsin | 43 | #116 | #291 |
| Oklahoma | 29 | #123 | #132 |
| Arizona | 50 | #126 | #288 |
| Utah | 34 | #129 | #136 |
| Pennsylvania | 75 | #140 | #382 |
| Tennessee | 53 | #140 | #385 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | #142 | — |
| Michigan | 58 | #143 | #266 |
| South Carolina | 31 | #149 | #479 |
| North Carolina | 68 | #150 | #422 |
| Illinois | 55 | #181 | #545 |
| Florida | 98 | #185 | #404 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #195 | — |
| Alabama | 21 | #227 | #338 |
| Texas | 150 | #236 | #444 |
| Georgia | 44 | #240 | #449 |
| California | 132 | #252 | #523 |
| Connecticut | 13 | #256 | — |
| Mississippi | 10 | #278 | #601 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #307 | #698 |
| Maryland | 17 | #315 | #590 |
| New York | 49 | #344 | #977 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #494 | #765 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #544 | #1,231 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,952 | #154 | 36 | #3,266 |
| 2024 | 2,183 | #135 | 39 | #3,126 |
| 2023 | 1,707 | #169 | 42 | #2,966 |
| 2022 | 1,836 | #158 | 36 | #3,293 |
| 2021 | 1,775 | #163 | 57 | #2,388 |
| 2020 | 1,539 | #187 | 33 | #3,361 |
| 2019 | 1,541 | #195 | 27 | #3,924 |
| 2018 | 1,475 | #208 | 24 | #4,266 |
| 2017 | 1,122 | #289 | 26 | #4,020 |
| 2016 | 1,021 | #320 | 23 | #4,364 |
| 2015 | 902 | #366 | 17 | #5,359 |
| 2014 | 741 | #431 | 10 | #7,720 |
| 2013 | 523 | #559 | 9 | #8,312 |
| 2012 | 508 | #577 | 14 | #6,093 |
| 2011 | 424 | #669 | 9 | #8,274 |
| 2010 | 326 | #824 | 12 | #6,800 |
| 2009 | 311 | #883 | — | — |
| 2008 | 201 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 2007 | 224 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 2006 | 176 | #1,329 | 6 | #11,060 |
| 2005 | 160 | #1,356 | 6 | #10,489 |
| 2004 | 143 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 2003 | 127 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,924 | — | — |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1999 | 80 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1990 | 60 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 1989 | 60 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1988 | 90 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,028 | — | — |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,148 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,171 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,508 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,285 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,120 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,568 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,895 | — | — |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,645 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,900 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,333 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,925 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,761 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).