Empress
Empress reached its high-water mark in 2019 at number 1,423, and has been recorded 1,753 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,298th. About 1,700 Empresses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Empress
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,753
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 1,423rd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,298th
- First recorded
- 1986
How old the living Empresses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,753 babies given the name since 1986, about 1,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 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.
Notable Empresss
- Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837–1898)Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from 1854 to 1898
- Empress Matilda (1102–1167)Holy Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne
- Empress Masako (born 1963)empress consort of Japan
- Empress Michiko (born 1934)wife of Emperor Akihito of Japan
- Empress Meishō (1624–1696)empress of Japan
- Empress Myeongseong (1851–1895)Empress Consort of Korea
- Empress Maria Anna of Austria (1803–1884)Austrian, Hungarian and Bohemian Consort
- Empress Amélie of Brazil (1812–1873)Empress consort of Brasil
People named Empress with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Empress is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Empress is most concentrated in Florida (6.3×), Georgia (5.3×), North Carolina (2.8×), New York (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular girls’ names the year Empress peaked:
Empress elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Empress | 25 | 4,001st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
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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.