Emma (given name)
Emma is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Germanic word ermen meaning "whole" or "universal". Emma is also used as a diminutive of Emmeline, Amelia or any other name beginning with "em".
It has been among the top names given to baby girls in the United States, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Ireland, France, Sweden, Belgium, Russia, Canada, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Hungary, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain in the past 10 years. It began gaining popularity in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. By 1974 it was the fourth most popular name for girls in England and Wales. It was still in the top 10 as late as 1995, but had fallen out of the top 20 by 2005 and in 2009 it ranked at 41st.
It became popular in the United States later in the 20th century, reaching the top 100 names for girls in the late 1990s. It has been among the top five names given to girls since 2002, and was the most popular name for girls in 2008, 2014, and 2015.
Notable people
- Emma Adbåge, Swedish illustrator and children's writer
- Emma Adler, Austrian journalist and writer
- Emma Ahuena Taylor, part-Native Hawaiian high chiefess
- Emma Albani, Canadian operatic soprano
- Emma Anderson, English musician
- Emma Anderson, Canadian professor
- Emma Andersson, Swedish television personality and singer
- Emma Andijewska, modern Ukrainian poet, writer and painter
- Emma Ania, former track and field sprint athlete
- Emma Ankudey, Ghanaian former amateur boxer
- Emma Anzai, bassist of Australian band Sick Puppies
- Emma Appleton, English actress and model
- Emma B. Alrich, American journalist, author, educator
- Emma Asp, Swedish footballer defender
- Emma Asson, Estonian politician
- Emma Atkins, English actress
- Emma Whitcomb Babcock, American litterateur, author
- Emma Baeri, Sicilian feminist historian and essayist
- Emma Baker, television journalist and presenter employed by ITV Channel
- Emma Bale, Belgian singer
- Emma Bardac, French singer
- Emma Barnett, British broadcaster and journalist
- Emma Baron, Italian stage and film actress
- Emma Barrandeguy, Argentine writer, journalist, poet, storyteller and playwright
- Emma Barrie, Scottish netball player
- Emma Bartoniek, Hungarian historian and bibliographer
- Emma Bates, runner
- Emma Beckett , Irish football midfielder
- Emma Bell, American actress
- Emma Bengtsson, Swedish chef
- Emma Bonino, Italian politician and human rights activist
- Emma Eliza Bower, American physician, club-woman, and newspaper owner, publisher, editor
- Emma Southwick Brinton, American Civil War nurse, traveller, correspondent
- Emma Scarr Booth, British-born American novelist, poet
- Emma Elizabeth Brown, American writer, artist
- Emma Bull, American science fiction and fantasy author
- Emma Bunton, English singer, the Spice Girls
- Emma Caulfield, American actress
- Emma Churchill, founder of The Salvation Army in Newfoundland
- Emma Amelia Cranmer, American reformer, suffragist, writer
- Emma Shaw Colcleugh, American journalist, lecturer, traveler, collector
- Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin
- Emma Beard Delaney, Baptist missionary and teacher
- Emma Didlake, oldest U.S. veteran
- Emma Dumont , American actress and model
- Emma Bedelia Dunham, American poet, teacher
- Emma Ellingsen, Norwegian model
- Emma Catherine Embury, American author, poet
- Emma Pike Ewing, American educator, author
- Emma Ferguson, English actress, Mile High
- Emma Sheridan Fry, American actress, playwright, teacher
- Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist
- Emma Sophia Galton, British finance guide author
- Emma Gatewood, American hiker
- Emma George, Australian pole vaulter
- Emma Goldman, Lithuania-born anarchist, writer and orator
- Emma González, American activist and advocate for gun control
- Emma Grant , Australian footballer
- Emma Green , Swedish athlete
- Emma Green , 19th century southern belle
- Emma Jane Greenland, English painter, writer, singer
- Emma Azalia Hackley, African-American singer and political activist
- Emma, Lady Hamilton, English artist's model and performer
- Emma Heming, English actress
- Emma Churchman Hewitt, American writer, journalist
- Emma Hippolyte, Saint Lucian politician
- Emma Hope, British shoe designer
- Emma Hwang, Taiwanese-American scientist and aquanaut
- Queen Emma of Hawaii, queen to King Kamehameha IV from 1856 to his death in 1863
- Emma Jung, Swiss psychologist and writer
- Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress and singer
- Emma Laine, Finnish tennis player
- Emma Laura, Mexican actress
- Emma Lazarus, American poet
- Emma Mackey, French-British actress
- Emma Malabuyo, American gymnast
- Emma B. Mandl, Bohemian-born American social reformer, clubwoman, and community leader
- Emma Marrone, Italian pop singer
- Emma Meesseman, Belgian basketball player
- Emma of Mělník, wife of Boleslav II of Bohemia and Bohemian duchess
- Emma Miyazawa, Japanese actress
- Emma Barrett Molloy, American journalist, lecturer, and activist
- Emma Huntington Nason, American poet, author, and musical composer
- Emma Neale, New Zealand novelist and poet
- Queen Emma of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- Emma of Normandy, twice Queen consort of the Kingdom of England
- Emma Aline Osgood, American soprano
- Emma, Lady Radford, English antiquarian and public servant
- Emma Ann Reynolds, African-American teacher
- Emma Richter, German paleontologist
- Emma Rigby, English actress, known for her role as Hannah Ashworth in Hollyoaks
- Emma Roberts, American actress and singer
- Emma Roberts, British aristocrat
- Emma Rochlin, Scottish field hockey player
- Emma Samms, English actress
- Emma Sandys, English painter
- Emma Shapplin, French soprano
- Emma Augusta Sharkey, American writer, journalist, dime novelist, story-teller
- Emma L. Shaw, American magazine editor
- Emma Sinclair, British businesswoman
- Emma Slater, British ballroom dancer
- Emma Snowsill, Australian triathlete
- Emily 'Emma' Stone, American actress
- Emma Sulkowicz, American performance artist and activist
- Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress, Angel in Kuu Kuu Harajuku
- Emma Tennant, British novelist
- Emma Thompson, British actress, comedian and screenwriter
- Emma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth, English socialite
- Emma Watkins, Australian children's entertainer, The Wiggles
- Emma Watson, British actress, Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films
- Emma Willard, women's education rights activist
- Emma Willis, British TV presenter and former model, presenter of Big Brother
- Emma Zimmer, overseer at the Ravensbrück concentration camp executed for war crimes
Characters
- Emma, one of the main characters in the Teletoon Canadian animated sitcom Stoked
- Emma, the Amazon daughter of Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural
- Emma, the main character in '
- Emma Bloom, peculiar girl in Ransom Rigg's series Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Emma Brooker, a character from the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Emma Bovary, the heroine of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary
- Emma Carstairs, a character and protagonist in Cassandra Clare's The Shadowhunter Chronicles and heroine in The Dark Artifices
- Emma Coolidge in Heroes
- Emma Frost in Marvel Comics
- Emma Geller-Green, daughter of Rachel Green and Ross Geller on Friends
- Emma Gilbert in '
- Emma Goodall, the pink ranger in Power Rangers Megaforce
- Emma Kliesen, a minor character in the Tekken series
- Emma Karn, a main character in the NBC series Aquarius
- Emma Nelson, the staple character in
- Emma Peel, fictional television spy played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure series The Avengers
- Emma Pillsbury in Glee
- Emma Ross on the Disney Channel series Jessie, and Bunk'd
- Emma Sheen, Gundam pilot from the AEUG group in the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
- Emma Swan, protagonist of the television series Once Upon a Time
- Emma Washburne, daughter of Zoe and Wash in the science fiction franchise Firefly
- Emma Wheeler on the ABC Family series Baby Daddy
- Emma Woodhouse, the title character of Jane Austen's Emma
- "Emma Zunz" in the eponymous short story by Jorge Luis Borges
- Emma, main character in The Promised Neverland
- Emma, a main character in Billie and Emma