Embla
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Embla is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Icelandic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Embla är ett nordiskt namn.
- ISIceland1 in 413◐
- NONorway1 in 5.2K
- SESweden1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.0K ●
- Sources
- 4 ●
- 1 in 413 ◐
across 6 countries
8 records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Embla är ett nordiskt namn. Det är hämtat från den fornnordiska mytologin där Embla och Ask är de två första människorna efter skapelsen. Betydelsen är oklar, kanske en bildning till ett ord för ’alm, almträ’. Embla har blivit populärt de senaste årtiondena.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 1,903 | 0 rec. | 1 in 5.4K | 1.9K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 1,044 | 0 rec. | 1 in 5.2K | 3.5K | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 850 | — | 1 in 413 | 850 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 149 | — | 1 in 39K | 149 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 22 | — | 1 in 253K | 41 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 11 | 8 rec. | — | — | Embla | 4 |
| PL Poland | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | 8 | — | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
Roughly 1.9K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 5.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Norwegian Bokmål3.5K49%
- Icelandic2.3K32%
- Danish3795%
- Swedish2463%
- Norwegian1993%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 3,544 | 49% |
| Icelandic | 2,346 | 32% |
| Danish | 379 | 5% |
| Swedish | 246 | 3% |
| Norwegian | 199 | 3% |
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●
Embla is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The first female human in the Edda.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Lielbritānijā, Anglijas ziemeļaustrumos, Ziemeļjūras piekrastē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Skandināvu mitoloģijā - pirmā sieviete uz Zemes
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 20 |
| 1994 | 24 |
| 1995 | 18 |
| 1996 | 26 |
| 1997 | 18 |
| 1998 | 26 |
| 1999 | 31 |
| 2000 | 26 |
| 2001 | 37 |
| 2002 | 35 |
| 2003 | 26 |
| 2004 | 22 |
| 2005 | 24 |
| 2006 | 31 |
| 2007 | 33 |
| 2008 | 27 |
| 2009 | 29 |
| 2010 | 26 |
| 2011 | 31 |
| 2012 | 23 |
| 2013 | 36 |
| 2014 | 35 |
| 2015 | 26 |
| 2016 | 31 |
| 2017 | 34 |
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 33 |
| 2020 | 43 |
| 2021 | 39 |
| 2022 | 44 |
| 2023 | 58 |
| 2024 | 53 |
| 2025 | 62 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 33 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Embla Hjulströmb. 1994SESwedish actress
- Embla Kristínardóttirb. 1995ISIcelandic basketball player (1995-)
- Embla Hägelmarkb. 2002SESwedish diplomat
- Embla Matilde Njerveb. 2007NONorwegian athletics competitor
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 3.5K | #773 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.9K | #1,084 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 1K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 1K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 984 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 979 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2023 | 936 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 929 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 891 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 202 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Embla?
- We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Embla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Embla have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.9 thousand people bear Embla in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Embla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Embla is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 413 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- Is Embla a male or female name?
- Embla 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 Embla mean?
- Recorded meaning: Embla är ett nordiskt namn.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Embla”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.