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Emma

Pronounced /ˈɛmə/

Rank in 2024
#5,811
Born in 2024
16
Peak year
2004 · #1401
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:13,485 in 2024 (#2)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 16 boys were named Emma, about 1 in every 107,207.
  • It peaked in 2004 with 102 babies, ranked #1401.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 1,718 boys 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.

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Greatest: 364 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 328 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 93 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 21 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 95 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 404 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 173 babies, 0.01 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.