Emory
#883 in the US in 2025
Emory in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.
Emory is given to both sexes: 18,970 male and 10,792 female births on record. The two curves rarely move together, which is why they are drawn separately rather than summed.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Emory in New Zealand
Emory never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #267 | 40 |
| 1890 | #322 | 29 |
| 1900 | #287 | 52 |
| 1910 | #332 | 55 |
| 1920 | #332 | 308 |
| 1930 | #412 | 202 |
| 1940 | #427 | 186 |
| 1950 | #528 | 163 |
| 1960 | #688 | 130 |
| 1970 | #884 | 83 |
| 1980 | #1,022 | 78 |
| 1990 | #1,435 | 61 |
| 2000 | #1,323 | 97 |
| 2010 | #1,047 | 184 |
| 2020 | #818 | 281 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Emory most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Georgia | 3,292 |
| Florida | 1,227 |
| Texas | 1,072 |
| Virginia | 1,049 |
| Pennsylvania | 840 |
| North Carolina | 643 |
| Maryland | 597 |
| Alabama | 527 |
| West Virginia | 497 |
| California | 394 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026