Emma

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

German name

1) Younger form of Erma ^{[1] [2]}

2) Short form of Emilia ^[1]

3) Short form of Emerentia ^[1]

Related Names

Emma	♀
Emmá	♀
Emma	♀
Emmi	♀
Emmoš	♀
Emmy	♀

See also Emi, Emika, Emina, Emmerich

Combinations

Name Element	Example
LIN	see Emmaline

Name Days

Faroe Islands

23 January

Finland

19 May

Norway

23 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

19 May

Sweden

23 July

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Emma
Accusative:	Emmu
Dative:	Emmu
Genitive:	Emmu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Emma
Accusative:	Emmu
Dative:	Emmu
Genitive:	Emmu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1766 ^[1]

Namesakes

Emma Sjöberg, Swedish actress, born 13th September, 1968

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		46992	69488	1	5
Denmark[4]		15896	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		4670	8241	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	18006	n.a	2
#: 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^[3][4][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi