Emery is of Old German origin and it means ‘powerful ruler’ or ‘brave worker’. It is derived from the Germanic name Emmerich, which is composed of two elements: ‘amal’ meaning ‘work’ and ‘ric’ meaning ‘ruler’ or ‘powerful’.
Emery is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
The name Emery is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #253 in the SmartGenius ranking.
Emery is of Old German origin and it means ‘powerful ruler’ or ‘brave worker’. It is derived from the Germanic name Emmerich, which is composed of two elements: ‘amal’ meaning ‘work’ and ‘ric’ meaning ‘ruler’ or ‘powerful’.
What does 'powerful' mean? Powerful' describes someone or something that has the ability to influence, control, or overcome others or things. It can refer to someone who has a lot of physical strength, or a lot of authority.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their child Emery annualy. This means that there have been kids named Emery who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus people named Emery have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2022 it holds its present record at #187 in the ranking of the most popular first names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Emery was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.
With five letters, the name Emery is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 3.8% of all first names starting with an E, this initial letter occurs exactly as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Emery and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Emery, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Emery
Emery
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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R
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Emery sounds like this:
