Emari is a modern American name created as a variant of Amari with the fashionable E- opening; Amari itself has no settled etymology and is usually explained as "strength" after the Yoruba or linked to the Arabic for "prince". Soft, two-syllable boys' names ending in -i have been rising since the 2000s. Emari has climbed from about number 2780 in 2015 to number 2040 in 2025, its best rank so far.