Emory

At the 2020 census, 5,309 Americans bore the surname Emory — 6,184th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,309
Rank: 6,184th
How common: 1 in 56,300
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.0%
Black, not Hispanic 16.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Emory

Zayne Emory (born 1998)American film actor
William H. Emory (1811–1887)Union Army general

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

Also a first name

Emory has been given to 29,762 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. 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.