Emma

given name · English · Latin script

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

Emma is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 67th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Germanic hypocoristic from names with Ermin/Irmin; sense 'strength'.

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

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ema in AR Argentina, CL Chile, BR Brazil and 4 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●

Germanic hypocoristic from names with Ermin/Irmin; sense 'strength'

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Emma 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●

  • English2.5M39%
  • Spanish1.2M18%
  • French954K15%
  • Arabic341K5%
  • Hungarian207K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,501,61239%
Spanish1,173,80318%
French954,31715%
Arabic340,6185%
Hungarian206,8433%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name1.4M records spelled Emma19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Emmä, Ëmmä, Emmá, Emma', 'Emma

  • French given name988K records spelled Emma11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Belgium

    Also written Émma, Emmà, Emmä, Emmå, Emmã

  • Russian given name122K records spelled Emma81 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Czechia, Croatia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Эмма, Ema, Емма, Ема, Эма

  • Finnish given name102K records spelled Emma3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ĕmmã

  • a separate given name58K records spelled Emma6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden

    Also written Ėmma, Émma, Ēmma, Èmma, Êmma

  • Indonesian given name23K records spelled Emma9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Emma, Émmã, Ęmmą, Emmã, Emmå

84 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●

Emma 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 French, Short form of Germanic names in ermen- (“whole, universal”); feast day not given in excerpt.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Short form of Germanic names in Ermen-, from 'whole' or 'universal'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Germanic name meaning 'universal'; popular in Ireland today.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In German, from a Germanic stem meaning 'universal, whole'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, from the old feminine name ending -a; Germanic origin uncertain in this passage

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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●

010K20K30K19001950200023K · 2003

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Emma in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18802,003
18812,034
18822,303
18832,367
18842,587
18852,728
18862,764
18872,647
18883,087
18892,884
18902,980
18912,884
18923,128
18932,968
18942,937
18952,952
18962,872
18972,698
18982,788
18992,445
19003,095
19012,374
19022,514
19032,308
19042,312
19052,298
19062,224
19072,356
19082,357
19092,338
19102,607
19112,616
19123,357
19133,474
19143,972
19155,044
19165,217
19175,121
19185,324
19195,087
19205,238
19215,072
19225,013
19234,977
19244,897
19254,714
19264,480
19274,327
19284,017
19293,803
19303,555
19313,307
19323,330
19333,152
19342,940
19352,802
19362,831
19372,750
19382,670
19392,685
19402,606
19412,546
19422,606
19432,422
19442,247
19452,052
19462,070
19472,141
19482,099
19491,999
19501,896
19511,731
19521,709
19531,590
19541,530
19551,460
19561,340
19571,217
19581,084
19591,056
1960976
1961892
1962798
1963724
1964770
1965640
1966619
1967564
1968494
1969516
1970529
1971474
1972453
1973419
1974490
1975477
1976414
1977479
1978442
1979488
1980530
1981534
1982560
1983551
1984678
1985947
19861,259
19871,589
19881,795
19891,938
19902,420
19912,595
19923,212
19934,108
19944,765
19955,050
19966,151
19977,749
199810,451
199911,751
200012,560
200113,327
200216,558
200322,719
200421,625
200520,362
200619,133
200718,390
200818,830
200917,910
201017,366
201118,825
201220,976
201320,973
201420,970
201520,487
201619,550
201719,873
201818,824
201917,226
202015,723
202115,549
202214,512
202313,590
202413,524
202512,754

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. 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

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 190 sources across 94 countries.

Official registers attesting Emma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020497K#86
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024174K#5
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—77K#39
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202050K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—48K#181
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—46K#67
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—42K#110
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202426K#75
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25K#197
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—23K#17
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—21K#153
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202520K#67

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2,410 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Emma?
We estimate roughly 933 thousand people bear Emma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Emma have the most bearers?
Emma is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled emma.
How common is Emma compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Emma is the 67th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Emma a male or female name?
Emma 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 Emma mean?
Recorded meaning: Germanic hypocoristic from names with Ermin/Irmin; sense 'strength'
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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, “Emma” — the 67th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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