Embla

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Danish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Uncertain meaning, probably from the Proto-Norse name *Elm-la deriving from the Ancient Germanic name *Almilōn (Old Norse almr = 'elm tree' - see also the name element ALM) ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Embla	♀
Emla	♀

Name Day

Norway

1 July

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Embla
Accusative:	Emblu
Dative:	Emblu
Genitive:	Emblu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Embla
Accusative:	Emblu
Dative:	Emblu
Genitive:	Emblu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1882 ^[4]

Mythology

Askr and Embla are the first human beings on earth. Burr's sons, the gods Óðinn, Vili and Vé find two tree trunks on the shore and they create man from them:

Óðinn gives them breath and life
Vili gives them intelligence and movement
Vé gives them their outward appearance, speech, hearing and sight.

In the Vǫluspá, the creating gods are Óðinn, Hœnir and Loðurr ^{[1] [4] [5] [2]}

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[6]		724	1136	0	0
Norway[7]		310	469	0	0
Denmark[8]		40	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[9]		n.a.	11	n.a	4
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[6][8][7][9]:

Sources: ^{[6] [8] [7] [9]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi