‘Emery,’ though now utterly forgotten as a personal name, may be said to live on only in our surnames.

It was once no unimportant sobriquet. Americ, Almaric, Emeric and Eimeric seem to have been its original spellings in England, and thus, at least, it is more likely to remind us that it is the same name to which, in the Italian form of Amerigo, we now owe the title of that vast expanse of western territory which is so indissolubly connected with English industry and English interests. Curter forms than these were found in Aylmar, Ailmar, Almar, Aymer and Amar.

The surnames it has bequeathed to us are not few. It has had the free run of the vowels in our Amorys, Emerys and Imarys, and in a more patronymic form we may still oftentimes meet with it in our Emersons. – from English Surnames - by Bardsley

Emery (m) – English form of German Emmerich, ‘homepower’, Emory is often used in the U.S., mainly a 19^th century name.<br.>from – Facts on File Dictionary of First Names

Emmery – Anglicanized form of the Old High German Amalric, "work king" akin to Emil.

The name of the fierce German Amalric was borne in the United States by the gentlest of philosophers, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whose name meant, "son of Emmery."

Amery (German) – Always rich, able, and powerful from the old German Emerich or Immer-reich, always rich.

from – Etymological Dictionary of Names – by Arthur 1857

Imer, Emmery (Ric, dominion) – Old German Emrich, 8^th century – English Emerick – Modern German, Emerich

French, Emeric, Emmericque. – from The Teutonic Name System – by Ferguson

Amery, Amori, Amory, / Emary, Emery, Emory, Embrey, Emberry, Embrey, Embry, Embury, Emeric, Emerick, Emerig,

Imbery, Imbrey, Imbrie, Imery, Imray, Imrie, / Hemery, Hembrey, Hembrey, Hembry: 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 Amalrici, Almarici 1207-14 Cur (Nt); Emeric Orcherd 1241 AssSo;

Amauricus, Amaricus, Ailmarus, Aumaricus, Almaricus de Sancto Amando 1221 Cur;

Emery de Roche Chaward 1269 AssSo; Roger Hemeri a1182 Clerkenwell (Ess); Roger Amalri 1207 Cur (O)

Hemericus, Eymericus, Heimericus Buche 1222 Cur (Do); Aymery de Rupe Cawardi 1278 AssSo;

Richard Aumauri 1221 Cur (Do); Robert Emeri 1223 Pat (Lei); Robert Heymeri 1240 Rams (C);

Simon Amarik 1260 AssY; William Emeric 1276 LLB A; Robert Amary, Amory 1279 RH (Bk);

Walter Ymery 1513 Black; John Imbrie 1611 ib. Ofr.

Amauri, Emaurri, from OG Amalric ‘work-rule’. – source unknown, Abbreviations and (?) also unknown. (by me at least).

Amelbrecht (obd.): German persons name; Amal-berht (vgl. Das got. Königsgeschlecht der Amaler!), siehe Amelung!

Amalperaht 823, Amelprecht 1395 Kremsmstr., Wenczlab Amelprecht 1414 Mähren. Auch ital. FN.: Amalberti

Amelrich: schon N. eines Ostgotenherrschers, im MA. bieliebt; als A. gibt sich Hagen beim Donau- Übergang der Nibelungen aus. Siehe Amelung! Ein Ritter Amelrich v. Isenheim 1253 im Elsaß. Fritz A. 1338 Eßlingen. Bernardus filius Amelrici 1270 Stralsd. Nd. KF.: Ameke, Emeke (Ehmke). Siehe auch Emmelrich! – Amels siehe Ahmels! Vgl. Amler!

These variations on a well-known name illustrate the popular indifference to spelling by the scribes of the Middle Ages. – Benyon.

Of font names that were once popular and are now all but forgotten there is one historic interest.

This is Amalric, varied forms of which are Americ, Emeric, Ermeric. In it’s Italian form Amerigo it was the font name of the explorer Vespucci, who after a notable voyage across the Atlantic found a new country and called it by his name.

In English directories this font name survives in Amar, Amery, Emery, Emerson, Emberson, Imeson, Imray and Imrie.

- from The Story of Surnames – Wm Bowman 1932

Emery (m.); Old German Emmerich, compound of some element from the stem Im-, Em-, and rija ‘rule’; latinized as Emericus. Emery was introduced into England by the Normans and though never common, survived both as a man’s and as a woman’s name until the end of the 18^th century. It is still used from time to time as a man’s name, as also is Emerick.

Emericus FA 1284, 1316. Emeric HR 1273. – from Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names