Emma

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

German name

1) Younger form of Erma [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Short form of Emerentia [1]

3) Pet form of Emilia [4] [6]

Related Names

Emma
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Swedish
Emmá
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Sami
Emmah
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Swedish
Emme Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Ämma
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Swedish
Æmma
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Danish

See also Emika, Emina, Emmi, Emmoš, Íma, Imma
For male forms see Emmar, Emmerich, Emmet

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Emmuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Emmudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see EMM (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Emma
Genitive: Emmas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Emma
Accusative: Emmu
Dative: Emmu
Genitive: Emmu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Emma
Genitive: Emman
Partitive: Emmaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Emma
Accusative: Emmu
Dative: Emmu
Genitive: Emmu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Emma
Genitive: Emmas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Emma
Genitive: Emmas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

23 January

Finland Finland

19 May

Norway Norway

23 January

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

19 May

Sweden Sweden

23 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[12]
50484 75823 50468 75800 16 23
Denmark Denmark[11]
20475
n.a.
20474
n.a.
1
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
23137
n.a.
23137 0 0
Iceland Iceland[16]
413 614
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
78 224
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
12403
n.a.
12390
n.a.
13
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Emma (f) Sources: [12][11][14][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Emma (f) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Emma (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Emma (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Emma (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. details see Name Statistic tables