Eman
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eman is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A language spoken in Cameroon.
- EGEgypt1 in 449◐
- KWKuwait1 in 482
- SYSyria1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.5K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 236 ●
- 1 in 6.8K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
129K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled เจ๊ะเด็ง in TH Thailand and Эман in RU Russia.
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●
A language spoken in Cameroon.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #35 | 87,342 | 38K rec. | — | — | Eman | 141 |
| SY Syria | #157 | 21,580 | 22K rec. | — | — | Eman | 22 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #109 | 8,876 | 3K rec. | — | — | Eman | 134 |
| US United States | — | 4,817 | 25K rec. | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Eman | 236 |
| KW Kuwait | #45 | 4,740 | 3K rec. | — | — | Eman | 73 |
| TH Thailand | — | 4,313 | 2.1K rec. | — | #827,136 | เจ๊ะเด็ง | 49 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 3,727 | 5.9K rec. | — | — | Eman | 25 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #111 | 2,991 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Eman | 101 |
| JO Jordan | #233 | 2,969 | 2.7K rec. | — | — | Eman | 87 |
| PK Pakistan | #978 | 2,852 | 2K rec. | — | — | Eman | 63 |
| IL Israel | — | 1,904 | 2K rec. | — | — | Eman | 35 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,702 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Eman | 96 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic143K67%
- English14K7%
- Indonesian9K4%
- Spanish5.7K3%
- 3.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 143,123 | 67% |
| English | 14,113 | 7% |
| Indonesian | 9,027 | 4% |
| Spanish | 5,725 | 3% |
| 3,176 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Eman 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 Kurdish, Trust, security
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Esperanto, accusative singular of ema
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, to give
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kurdish, mercy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, give
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 12 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1978 | 14 |
| 1979 | 12 |
| 1980 | 18 |
| 1981 | 23 |
| 1982 | 18 |
| 1983 | 20 |
| 1984 | 26 |
| 1985 | 22 |
| 1986 | 23 |
| 1987 | 27 |
| 1988 | 35 |
| 1989 | 35 |
| 1990 | 26 |
| 1991 | 46 |
| 1992 | 34 |
| 1993 | 40 |
| 1994 | 37 |
| 1995 | 31 |
| 1996 | 43 |
| 1997 | 56 |
| 1998 | 49 |
| 1999 | 55 |
| 2000 | 67 |
| 2001 | 79 |
| 2002 | 66 |
| 2003 | 62 |
| 2004 | 70 |
| 2005 | 59 |
| 2006 | 60 |
| 2007 | 65 |
| 2008 | 65 |
| 2009 | 52 |
| 2010 | 50 |
| 2011 | 59 |
| 2012 | 48 |
| 2013 | 43 |
| 2014 | 44 |
| 2015 | 59 |
| 2016 | 53 |
| 2017 | 53 |
| 2018 | 52 |
| 2019 | 50 |
| 2020 | 54 |
| 2021 | 43 |
| 2022 | 59 |
| 2023 | 63 |
| 2024 | 60 |
| 2025 | 64 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1972–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- George E. Vaillantb. 1934USnot in their usual nameAmerican psychiatrist
- Valeria Porokhovab. 1940RUnot in their usual nameRussian translator, interpreter (1940-2019)
- Eman al-Nafjanb. 1950SASaudi Arabian blogger, writer and women's rights activist
- Eman Ahmedb. 1980EGconsidered to be the heaviest living woman in the world and the second heaviest woman in history (after Carol Yager)
- Eman Lamb. 1982CNHong Kong singer-songwriter
- Eman El-Asyb. 1985EGEgyptian actress
- Eman Esfandib. 1997USPersian-American actor and rapper
- Eman Markovićb. 1999NONorwegian association football player
- Eman Košpob. 2007CHBosnia and Herzegovina association football player (born 2007)
- Eman GhoneimEGEgyptian geomorphologist
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 74 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #3,789 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 808 | #1,983 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 607 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 432 | #2,773 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 416 | #3,789 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 322 | #778 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 308 | #392 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 302 | #69,958 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 295 | #6,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 291 | #67,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 259 | #70,473 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 228 | #3,679 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 401 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Eman?
- We estimate roughly 6.5 thousand people bear Eman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Eman have the most bearers?
- Eman is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled eman.
- How common is Eman compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Eman is the 35th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Eman a male or female name?
- Eman 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 Eman mean?
- Recorded meaning: A language spoken in Cameroon.
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About this data
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, “Eman” — the 35th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.