Emery

24,499 people in the United States were counted with the surname Emery in the 2020 census, making it the 1,416th most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,200.

By the numbers

People: 24,499
Rank: 1,416th
How common: 1 in 12,200
Per 100,000: 8.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Emery described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.3%
Black, not Hispanic 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Emery

Unai Emery (born 1971)Spanish association football manager
Carlo Emery (1848–1925)Italian entomologist
Julie Ann Emery (born 1975)American actress
Gideon Emery (born 1972)British actor
Ray Emery (1982–2018)Canadian professional ice hockey player
John Emery (1905–1964)American actor
John Emery (1932–2022)Canadian bobsledder
Vic Emery (born 1933)Bobsledder and businessman

People named Emery with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Emery

Also a first name

Emery has been given to 64,249 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.