Empress

#2,298 for girls in 2025, 79 births

Peak · girls
2019 · 157 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,753
since 1986

Empress over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Empress has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017peak #1,423, 2019girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#2,29879
2024#2,01197
2023#1,750117
2022#1,731120
2021#1,698122
2020#1,559135
2019#1,423157
2018#1,878107
2017#1,863109
2016#2,03397
2015#2,64667
2014#3,11253
2013#4,00237
2012#3,98838
2011#4,24434
2010#4,18035
2009#4,37034
2008#4,17937
2007#5,37726
2006#5,54524
2005#7,50015
2004#7,82814
2003#5,09224
2002#5,44421
2001#8,75811
2000#4,79124
1999#5,21920
1998#7,10413
1997#6,84413
1996#8,13210
1995#13,3865
1994#5,98415
1993#10,5887
1992#13,3175
1991#10,2717
1990#6,13114
1989#12,3625
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First appearance
1986

The first year at least five girls were named Empress! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1986–1989, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Empress
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 287 spots since 2024 (#2,011#2,298)
  • 739 spots since 2020 (#1,559#2,298)
  • 348 spots since 2015 (#2,646#2,298)
Rise & fade · girls
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1986
  • Peaked 2019 at #1,423 (157 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,690
  • Highest: 1 in 10,690 girls born in 2019 were named Empress (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 20,345 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 41.9% of all girls named Empress (734) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s10#10,912 (1986)#11,637
1990s109#5,219 (1999)#8,698
2000s230#4,179 (2008)#5,888
2010s734#1,423 (2019)#2,937
2020s670#1,559 (2020)#1,841

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Empress in 2017

girls
#1,863
109 births · 1 in 15,839 girls

Top girls' names in 2017

  1. #1Emma19,873
  2. #2Olivia18,778
  3. #3Ava16,017
  4. #4Isabella15,263
  5. #5Sophia14,947
  6. #6Mia13,521
  7. #7Charlotte12,969
  8. #8Amelia11,870
  9. #9Evelyn10,748
  10. #10Abigail10,645
  11. #1,863Empress109
More about 2017

girls

1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 15,839 of them was named Empress, which outranked 89.9% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Empress
  1. #1,854Paizley110
  2. #1,854Rylin110
  3. #1,854Tilly110
  4. #1,863Empress109
  5. #1,863Aiza109
  6. #1,863Arwen109
  7. #1,863Eryn109
  8. #1,876Aoife108
  9. #1,876Avalee108
  10. #1,876Avigail108

Tied with 12 names at #1,863; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 1,443Ensley#2,412#969
  2. 1,020Oaklynn#1,908#888
  3. 842Dream#1,667#825
  4. 749Oaklyn#1,425#676
  5. 717Melania#1,649#932
Fallers
  1. 263Julianne#919#1,182
  2. 243Milania#947#1,190
  3. 240Wendy#858#1,098
  4. 238Montserrat#808#1,046
  5. 224Nathaly#930#1,154

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2017