Empress
Empress is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 96 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 960.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2019157 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1986
- 1,668people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,668 girls have been named Empress in the United States since 1986, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 157 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 44%.
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Empress was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Empress
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laikynpeak 2018
- Aviannapeak 2021
- Saoirsepeak 2020
- Ripleypeak 2022
- Caiapeak 2023
- Zarapeak 2022
- Korapeak 2022
- Nirvanapeak 2022
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.