Ema

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ema is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 67th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: rhea bird.

rarermore common
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 24◐
  • TTTrinidad & Tobago1 in 28
  • SESweden1 in 132

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈933K ●

across 14 countries

#690 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
517 ●

2.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 132 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

EmmaLatin · English●2.5M records
ᲔმაGeorgian · Georgian●3.6K records
ԷմմաArmenian · Armenian●215 records
ΕμμαGreek · Greek●165 records
엠마Hangul · Korean●10 records

Locally spelled Emma in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 17 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

rhea bird

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ema is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#67511,600356K rec.—3Emma312
US United States#346497,4351.3M rec.1 in 669497KEmma517
AU Australia#47364,331216K rec.—3Emma306
AE United Arab Emirates#5311,179672 rec.——Emma92
FR France—173,710△81 rec.1 in 391174K—14
AR Argentina#514122,58377K rec.—285Ema71
CA Canada#14589,99927K rec.—145Emma231
TT Trinidad & Tobago#585,824174 rec.——Emma8
SE Sweden#2277,49044K rec.1 in 13277KEmma154
PH Philippines#34063,28261K rec.——Emma118
CL Chile#23362,2722K rec.—316Ema67
ES Spain—47,562△16K rec.1 in 1.1K48KEma164

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish245K39%
  • Czech104K16%
  • Portuguese66K10%
  • Croatian52K8%
  • French29K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish244,77439%
Czech104,41416%
Portuguese65,51910%
Croatian52,0218%
French28,5324%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ema is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name167K records spelled Ema81 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Czechia, Croatia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Эмма, Emma, Емма, Ема, Эма

  • English given name72K records spelled Ema47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, India, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Emae, E-Mae, Éma, Emaé, Ema'

  • French given name30K records spelled Ema28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Éma, E'Ma, Ėmã, Ëma, Emà

  • Indonesian given name28K records spelled Ema7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Ema, Emã, Ěmă, Éma, Èma

  • Hungarian given name13K records spelled Ema9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, India, Hungary, United States

    Also written Émå, Emà, Émá, Émà, Émâ

  • Khmer given name6.8K records spelled Ema3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Italy, Malaysia

    Also written Ëmå, Ęmā

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ema is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Variante gráfica de Emma

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Amada

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Good.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In lua, to cut incision in palm tree so that the sap can flow out, tap, get wine.

    as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language

  • In pi, first-person plural present/imperative active of eti (“to come”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

050100150200190019502000

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Ema in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1883–2025
Yearrecords
18838
18846
18855
188710
18898
18907
18959
18966
18978
18987
18996
19005
19029
19035
19049
19096
191010
19116
19127
19137
191414
191522
191617
191714
191812
191918
192021
192111
192231
192330
192416
192518
192621
192728
192828
192925
193022
193124
193219
193318
193420
193515
19369
193713
193810
193911
194010
19418
194211
19437
19448
19458
194616
19479
19487
19499
195012
19517
19525
195313
19547
19556
19566
19575
19587
19596
19606
19619
19636
196410
19655
19675
19686
19698
19708
197211
197311
197416
197519
197615
19777
197810
197917
198011
198115
198215
198315
198413
198518
198613
19879
198823
198916
199017
199118
199220
199324
199438
199536
199628
199729
199847
199944
200050
200158
200281
2003125
2004134
2005133
2006152
2007136
2008153
2009148
2010134
2011161
2012136
2013137
2014145
2015156
2016151
2017130
2018124
2019150
2020141
2021106
2022144
2023156
2024136
2025164

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 129 years between 1883–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Emma Morano, b. 1899Juliana of the Netherlands, b. 1909Emma Thompson, b. 1959Emma Thomas, b. 1971Emma Watson, b. 1990Emma Roberts, b. 1991Emma Corrin, b. 1995Emma Mackey, b. 1996Emma Myers, b. 2002Emma Raducanu, b. 2002
  • Emma Moranob. 1899ITnot in their usual nameItalian supercentenarian (1899–2017)
  • Juliana of the Netherlandsb. 1909NLnot in their usual nameQueen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980 (1909-2004)
  • Emma Thompsonb. 1959GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress and screenwriter (born 1959)
  • Emma Thomasb. 1971GBnot in their usual nameBritish film producer (born 1971)
  • Emma Watsonb. 1990GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (born 1990)
  • Emma Robertsb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, singer, model and producer
  • Emma Corrinb. 1995GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor (born 1995)
  • Emma Mackeyb. 1996FRnot in their usual nameBritish-French actress and model
  • Emma Myersb. 2002USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 2002)
  • Emma Raducanub. 2002GBnot in their usual nameBritish tennis player (born 2002)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 94 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Ema
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—24K#131
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—12K#148
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202110K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20216.6K#160
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—6.4K#71
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20256.3K#31
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20245.8K#574
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.5K#3,657
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—4.4K#3,677
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3K#3,891
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—2.2K#336

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,236 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ema?
We estimate roughly 933 thousand people bear Ema (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Ema have the most bearers?
Ema is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled emma.
How common is Ema compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Ema is the 67th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Ema a male or female name?
Ema is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ema mean?
Recorded meaning: rhea bird
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ema” — the 67th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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