Spellings
Emery or Emory?
In the US in 2025, 63% of babies in this name family were spelled Emery and 23% Emory. Same name, slightly different impression: here are the figures for each spelling.
Ten years ago
Emery already led in 2015, with 70% of the family's births; it has 66% in 2025. All spellings together, the family went from 3,454 to 4,853 births (+41%).
| Spelling | 2015 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emery | 2,424 | 3,208 | +32% |
| Emory | 456 | 899 | +97% |
| Emerie | 358 | 548 | +53% |
| Emeri | 149 | 147 | steady |
| Emmery | 67 | 51 | −24% |
How they sound
All of these spellings are said the same way: /ˈɛməri/ (EM-uh-ree). So the choice is about how it looks: it is the spelling people will read on a birth card, a name tag or an email address, and the one your child will sometimes spell out.
In France
In France in 2025: Emery 5 births and Emory 5 births. The other spellings are not given there often enough to be counted.
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), Insee (France), 2025 data. How we calculate these figures.
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