Ember: name meaning, origin & popularity
- Meaning
- “glowing coal”
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- EM-ber · 2 syllables
- Used for
- Girls (98% of all uses)
From the English vocabulary word ember, referring to a small glowing piece of coal or wood in a fire. Its use as a given name is modern.
How popular is Ember?
Babies named Ember in 20242,210
2024 rank#137 girls
Peak year2024
Total US babies since 188021,059
Ember is rising: use over the last five years is 3.9× what it was a decade earlier.
Names like Ember
Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.
Ember questions
What does the name Ember mean?
Ember means "glowing coal". It comes from English. From the English vocabulary word ember, referring to a small glowing piece of coal or wood in a fire. Its use as a given name is modern.
Is Ember a boy or girl name?
Ember is mainly a girl's name in US records (98% of uses since 1880).
How popular is Ember?
2,210 US babies were named Ember in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.
How do you pronounce Ember?
Ember is usually pronounced EM-ber.
Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.