Imry as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Imry

What is the meaning of the name Imry ?

The baby name Imry is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced IM-ree (/ˈim.ri/).

Imry is Hebrew in Origin.

Imry is a modern transliteration of Hebrew Imri (אִמְרִי), a biblical name derived from the root ’-m-r, “to speak/say.” The sense is “my word,” “utterance,” or by extension “eloquent.” Imri appears in the Hebrew Bible in post-exilic genealogies (for example, in Nehemiah and First Chronicles), marking it as an old Judahite personal name. In modern Israel the form Imri is used as a given name - mostly masculine, sometimes unisex - and Imry occurs as a variant spelling and as a family name due to Hebraization.

Variants and related names include Imri (standard), Emri (less common transliteration), and the separate though similar-sounding Omri (עָמְרִי, “my sheaf”). Outside Hebrew, it is occasionally compared to Hungarian Imre or English Emery/Emeric, but those stem from Germanic roots meaning “home-ruler” and are etymologically unrelated. Imry offers a concise, vowel-forward sound with a meaning tied to speech or expression.

⚙ Imry is a rare name. Across 7 countries, we found 32 recorded uses of it.