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Embry

Embry reached its high-water mark in 2018 at number 2,647, and has been recorded 1,091 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,987th. About 990 Embrys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Embry boys named Embry

Girls and boys called Embry

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 712 girls and 379 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 26 to 0.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 17 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,091
Estimated living today
990
Median age today
10
Peak year
2018
Best rank
2,647th
Rank in 2025
4,987th
First recorded
1898
Girls / boys
712 / 379

How old the living Embrys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,091 babies given the name since 1898, about 990 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 930 of them are children and 11 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Embry is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Embry is most concentrated in Texas (6.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2018

The most popular girls’ names the year Embry peaked:

All the names of 2018

Related names

Embry against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.