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Emmer

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Emmer is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 441st, in 1885.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192669 births
Best rank
#441in 1885
Since 1880
2,155people given the name
Babies named Emmer, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,155 girls have been named Emmer in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 69 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 69 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Emmer
1880s142
1890s178
1900s231
1910s407
1920s547
1930s310
1940s235
1950s82
1960s23

In 1926, its biggest year

Emmer was the 896th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.

Names that rose and fell with Emmer

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.