Meaning not yet researched.
Emrys: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 157 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,141 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,141 in 2024; #1,260 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Emrys in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,260 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,141.
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Emrys: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 157 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,141 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 185 (2024).
In 2025, 157 US boys were named Emrys, making it the 1,260th most common boys’ name of the year, down 119 places from #1,141 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 185 boys named Emrys in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,141, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 185. For comparison, it was #2,417 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Emrys, making it the 4,483rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 768 places from #3,715 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 41 girls named Emrys in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,715, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 41. For comparison, it was #6,100 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emrys in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 1,651 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 944 babies named Emrys.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,057 US boys were named Emrys; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 185. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,879 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emrys ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #644 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ambrose (10,911 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Emris and Emryss are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Emris (66), Emryss (29).
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 Emrys in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 7 | #644 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #793 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #888 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #906 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #958 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #961 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,031 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,044 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,213 | #1,765 |
| New York | 9 | #1,232 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,320 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,335 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,793 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,483 | 157 | #1,260 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,715 | 185 | #1,141 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,595 | 107 | #1,624 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,145 | 85 | #1,861 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,759 | 123 | #1,463 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,929 | 84 | #1,790 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,807 | 102 | #1,614 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,611 | 79 | #1,890 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,121 | 68 | #2,056 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,247 | 67 | #2,098 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,100 | 53 | #2,417 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,620 | 58 | #2,281 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,505 | 60 | #2,186 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,547 | 39 | #2,973 |
| 2011 | — | — | 7 | #9,947 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,920 | 9 | #8,335 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,171 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #13,129 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #12,615 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #11,978 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,724 |
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).