Empey
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛmpi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Empey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London.
- USUnited States1 in 281K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 95M
- BRBrazil1 in 3.6Mas Mp
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Empey itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 281K (inferred from the name graph)
1,182 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mp in KR South Korea.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): London.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Empey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,182 | 1 in 281K | 1.2K | Empey | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 59as Mp | 1 in 3.6M | 59 | — | — |
| IN India | 14 | 1 in 95M | 14 | — | 4 |
| KR South Korea | — | — | — | Mp | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 30 | — | 1 |
1,182 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arthur Guy Empeyb. 1883USAmerican writer (1883-1963)
- Ralph Empeyb. 1904AUAustralian rules footballer (1904–1960)
- Walton Empeyb. 1934IEIrish Anglican Archbishop of Dublin
- Ruth Empeyb. 1940CAbadminton player
- Reg Empeyb. 1947GBNorthern Ireland politician (born 1947)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,399 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,591 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #96,269 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #4,228 |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Empey mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): London. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Empey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛmpi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Empey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Empey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled empey.
- Where is Empey most common?
- Empey is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 281 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Empey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,182 people named Empey in 2010, about 1 in 281 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/empeyThe 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, “Empey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.