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Emma
Pronounced /ˈɛmə/
Rank in 2024
#2
Born in 2024
13,485
Peak year
2003 · #2
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:16 in 2024 (#5,811)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 13,485 girls were named Emma, about 1 in every 120.
- It peaked in 2003 with 22,719 babies, ranked #2.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 763,546 girls have been named Emma since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Emma per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 5.0Greatest1901–27
- 2.5Silent1928–45
- 0.8Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 1.4Millennials1981–96
- 9.2Gen Z1997–12
- 10.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 101,618 babies, 4.97 per 1,000. Silent: 52,320 babies, 2.53 per 1,000. Boomers: 27,082 babies, 0.76 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,030 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Millennials: 38,157 babies, 1.35 per 1,000. Gen Z: 268,499 babies, 9.24 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 210,689 babies, 10.37 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Brought to England by the Normans; short form of compound given names beginning with a Frankish prototheme Ermin- or Irmin- "entire", from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɛmə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Emma, CC BY-SA 4.0.