Given name
Imri
“one who is innocent”·“ruler of the home”·“of my words”
Imri is a diminutive of Imre. Interpretations include “one who is innocent”, “ruler of the home”, and “of my words”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Imri is a diminutive of Imre. Interpretations include “one who is innocent”, “ruler of the home”, and “of my words”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Imri is a diminutive of Imre. An origin associated with Imre is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Hungarian usage, Imri is a diminutive of Imre.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Imri through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 171
- 147 boys · 24 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 19
- #5,102 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +75%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 19 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,102 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (7).
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Imri’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Imri is a diminutive of Imre. In Hungarian usage, Imri has a conventional naming counterpart in the English form Emery. Imri has a related form in Imre.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Imri
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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