Amery
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From the Norman-brought male personal name Emaurri, of Germanic origin, literally ‘busy power’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Amery is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Norman-brought male personal name Emaurri, of Germanic origin, literally ‘busy power’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amery counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 533 | Amery | 154 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Amery | 103 |
| BE Belgium | — | 72 | — | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 30 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 10 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amery is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Amalricus, a Germanic personal name; first attested Amalricus 1086 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Leopold, British journalist &
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Amalricus 1086 DB; Ymerus filius Reineri c1160 DC (L); Haimeri 1170 P (St); Haimericus filius Gidhe c1190–5 DC (L); Eimericus uinitor 1191 P (Wa); Robertus filius
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leo Ameryb. 1873GBBritish politician and journalist (1873-1955)
- Harold François Saphir Ameryb. 1877GBPeerage person ID=269419
- Jean Améryb. 1912ATAustrian-born essayist and Holocaust survivor (1912-1978)
- John Ameryb. 1912GBBritish Nazi collaborator (1912–1945)
- Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleighb. 1919GBBritish politician (1919-1996)
- Nezam Ameryb. 1926IRIranian architect
- Shenda Ameryb. 1937GBBritish painter and sculptor
- Heather Ameryb. 1950GBchildren's writer, translator and editor (1950- )
- Richard Ameryb. 1951AUpolitician
- Moe Ameryb. 1954CACanadian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 189 | #101,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 180 | #94,227 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 178 | #101,247 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 72 | #20,074 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 30 | #148,949 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amery mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Norman-brought male personal name Emaurri, of Germanic origin, literally ‘busy power’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Amery have the most bearers?
- Amery is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled amery.
What do you want to know about Amery?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ameryThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amery”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.