Meaning not yet researched.
Embry: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,656 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,656 in 2018; #5,015 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Embry in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,015 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,656.
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Embry: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,656 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 65 (2018).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Embry, making it the 5,015th most common girls’ name of the year, down 954 places from #4,061 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 36 girls named Embry in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,656, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #3,191 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Embry in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,042, reached in 1898. The most boys given the name in a single year was 39, in 2010. For comparison, it was #5,812 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Embry in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 6 babies. In all, 1,091 US babies have been given the name, 65% of them girls and 35% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 654 babies named Embry.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 417 US girls were named Embry; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Embree, Embrie and Embri are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Embree (454), Embrie (242), Embri (78), Embrey (74), Embrii (17), Embrya (11).
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 Embry in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,015 | — | — |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,061 | 9 | #8,526 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,789 | 9 | #8,442 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,141 | 6 | #11,271 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,758 | 8 | #9,069 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,198 | 10 | #7,683 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,568 | — | — |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,656 | 8 | #9,068 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,028 | 10 | #7,748 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,942 | 16 | #5,623 |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,191 | 15 | #5,812 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,736 | 15 | #5,811 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,729 | 25 | #3,997 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,545 | 23 | #4,293 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,799 | 29 | #3,629 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,129 | 39 | #2,976 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,446 | 12 | #6,925 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,292 | 5 | #13,122 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,090 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,026 | — | — |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,275 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,368 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,529 | 7 | #8,951 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,237 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,375 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,334 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,281 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,970 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,172 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,333 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,380 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,487 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,417 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,628 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,861 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,164 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,279 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,175 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,148 |
| 1898 | — | — | 6 | #1,042 |
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).