Emer

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Emer: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Emer: Recorded every year since 1964, it reached #43 in 1983, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
109times a registrar ranked it
62years from first to last
#43highest recorded position
23groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Emer's record

Ranked every year since 1964, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 36 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1434
1997	#1287
1998	#1165
1999	#952
2000	#1688
2001	#1107
2002	#1245
2003	#1722
2004	#1952
2005	#2682
2006	#1983
2007	#2627
2008	#3860
2010	#4012
2011	#4049
2012	#4838
2013	#4739
2015	#5730
2021	#3961
2022	#5669

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 61 of the 62 years from 1964 to 2025.

In 2023: #302 among girls in Northern Ireland, #364 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #108 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–2025
Highest recorded position: #43 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1983 (recorded 1964–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Emer appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 61 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 4,789 births with the name.

Emer across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Emer's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#108 (1964)	#43 (1983)	#608 (2025)	61 of 62	4,789 (1964–2025)	195 (1983)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#97 (1997)	#85 (1998)	#253 (2024)	28 of 28	317 (1997–2024)	27 (1998)
England and Wales · Girls	#1434 (1996)	#952 (1999)	#5669 (2022)	20 of 27	190 (1996–2022)	22 (1999)

Emer by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Emer in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	451	6 of 10	75
1970s	1,319	10 of 10	132
1980sbusiest	1,428	10 of 10	143
1990s	824	10 of 10	82
2000s	509	10 of 10	51
2010s	216	10 of 10	22
2020s	42	5 of 10	8

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 143 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1976 and 1977, when recorded births rose by 39, from 107 to 146.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Emer appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #43 in Republic of Ireland in 1985.

Emer's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1952	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1245	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#952	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1165	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1434	12	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#253	6	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#266	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#212	8	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#273	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#239	7	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#229	8	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#175	12	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#278	6	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#284	6	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#187	10	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#224	8	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#258	7	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#164	12	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#157	13	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#110	20	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#219	8	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#159	12	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#212	7	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#108	18	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#91	22	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#95	21	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#127	16	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#141	14	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#85	27	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#97	24	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	8	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#375	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#411	10	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#324	13	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#236	20	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#291	17	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#197	27	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#227	24	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#208	27	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#170	34	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#169	37	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#165	37	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#159	39	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#144	42	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#128	42	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#85	65	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#110	46	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#126	39	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#82	60	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#80	65	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#66	74	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#63	74	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#63	62	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#75	73	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#61	86	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#60	89	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#74	76	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#74	84	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#84	76	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#74	90	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#54	114	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#73	89	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#78	92	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#67	122	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#54	148	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#43	162	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#49	159	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#43	195	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#54	167	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#62	147	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#63	147	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#62	149	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#59	159	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#62	146	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#80	107	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#68	134	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#62	145	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#59	151	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#64	129	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#82	100	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#85	99	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#88	86	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#68	106	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#93	74	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#113	53	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#85	78	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#108	54	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1964 and 2025, ranked in 62 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #43, first reached in 1983.

It held a top-100 place in 38 years, 36 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 195 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1983.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 33 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Emeline · #2432, 27y
Emely · #277, 31y
Emerald · #905, 29y
Emerson · #594, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Joachim · #41, 63y
Nikolai · #41, 64y
Daire · #40, 60y
Donnacha · #46, 61y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Brage · #43, 57y
Ailbhe · #44, 59y
Marcin · #42, 49y
Veronica · #42, 65y

Emer was ranked #43 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1983. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Emer and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Emer without appearing here.

Emer moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5730 and #2070 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5730 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Tracey Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4838 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4739 and #5742.
Belinda Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5730 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #4634.

Moved ahead of Emer

Ezra Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #1279.
Francis Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3961 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #5669 and #2488.
Kristine Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #3252.
Teddy Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1245 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4739 and #2460.

Moved the opposite way to Emer

Emma Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Emer went from #108 to #608 while Emma went from #245 to #28.
Hannah Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Emer went from #108 to #608 while Hannah went from #91 to #21.
Kate Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Emer went from #108 to #608 while Kate went from #300 to #52.
Lucy Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Emer went from #108 to #608 while Lucy went from #154 to #16.

Moved the same way as Emer

Audrey Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Emer went from #108 to #608 and Audrey from #85 to #885.
Elaine Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Emer went from #108 to #608 and Elaine from #58 to #608.
Ida Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Emer went from #108 to #608 and Ida from #372 to #885.
Julia Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Emer went from #108 to #608 and Julia from #42 to #118.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #43 in Republic of Ireland in 1985. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Emer

Emer at a glance

What stands out in Emer's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Emer across 3 official records

Emer by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Emer appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Emer moved ahead of

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Emer at a glance

What stands out in Emer's record

Emer across 3 official records

Emer by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Emer appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Emer

Emer and the names beside it

Emer moved ahead of

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