Emma

A female given name, form of Erma.

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Emma is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Germanic word ermen meaning whole or universal, and was originally a short form of Germanic names that began with ermen. Emma is also used as a diminutive of Emmeline, Amelia or any other name beginning with "em". It was introduced to England by Emma of Normandy, who was the wife both of King Ethelred II (and by him the mother of Edward the Confessor) and later of King Canute. It was also borne by an 11th-century Austrian saint, who is sometimes called Hemma.
After the Norman conquest this name became common in England. It was revived in the 18th century, perhaps in part due to Matthew Prior's poem Henry and Emma (1709). It was also used by Jane Austen for the central character, the matchmaker Emma Woodhouse, in her novel Emma (1815).
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 5 names given to girls since 2002, and was the most popular name for girls in 2008, 2014, and 2015.

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Fem. proper name, from German Emma, from Erma, contraction of Ermentrude or some similar name. With lower-case -e-, as British telephone and radio enunciation of -m- (to avoid confusion with -n-), attested by 1891, common in British soldier's jargon in World War I, for example ack emma "a.m.," pip emma "p.m." Compare ack (-a-), toc (-t-).

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All-containing, universal, whole.

Ema, Irma, Mae, Amelia, Emilia, Emmy, Emilie, Emily

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Emma Watson	1990	English actress and model
2	Emma Stone	1988	American actress
3	Emma Thompson	1959	British actress and writer
4	Emma Morano	1899	Italian supercentenarian
5	Emma Bunton	1976	Singer, songwriter, actress
6	Emma Willis	1976	English television presenter and model
7	Emma Heming	1978	Actress and model from the United Kingdom
8	Emma Kenney	1999	American actress
9	Emma Greenwell	1989	American actress
10	Emma Goldman	1868	Anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches
11	Emma Thomas	1968	British film producer
12	Emma Slater	1988	British dancer and choreographer
13	Emma Walton Hamilton	1962	Children’s book author, Editor, Educator and Arts and Literacy advocate
14	Emma Watkins	1989	Australian musician
15	Emma Rigby	1989	Actress
16	Emma Swan		Fictional character in ABC's television series Once Upon a Time
17	Emma Caulfield	1973	Actress
18	Emma Kennedy	1967	English actress
19	Emma Forrest	1976	British journalist, novelist and screenwriter
20	Emma Donoghue	1969	Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian
21	Emma Bell	1986	Actress
22	Emma Coronel Aispuro	1989
23	Emma Samms	1960	American actress
24	Emma Chambers	1964	Actress
25	Emma Peel
26	Emma Dumont	1994	Actress, model
27	Emma Lazarus	1849	American poet
28	Emma Ishta	1990	Australian actor and model
29	Emma de Caunes	1976	French film actress
30	Emma Myles	1987	American actor and television actor
31	Emma Ferrer	1994	Fashion model
32	Emma Luchini	1979	French actress, screenwriter and film director
33	Emma Blackery	1991	British Youtuber
34	Emma Freud	1962	British broadcaster
35	Emma of Normandy	0985	Norman princess and mother of Edward the Confessor
36	Emma Lahana	1984	New Zealand actress
37	Emma Georgina Rothschild	1948	English historian
38	Emma Barton	1977	British actress
39	Emma Atkins	1975	English actress
40	Emma Coburn	1990	Track and field athlete
41	Emma Fuhrmann	2001	American actress
42	Emma García	1973	Spanish journalism and television presenter
43	Emma Pierson	1981	British actress
44	Emma Freedman	1989	Australian television presenter
45	Emma Pillsbury
46	Emma Maembong	1992	Malaysian actress and model
47	Emma Parker Bowles	1974	British model
48	Emma Barnett	1985	British journalist
49	Emma Forbes	1965	English radio and television presenter
50	Emma Amos (actor)	1967	English actress
51	Emma Smith	1804	American Mormon leader
52	Emma Hamilton	1984	Actress
53	Emma Fielding	1966	Actress
54	Emma Dean		Australian chef
55	Emma Smetana	1988	Czech actress and presenter
56	Emma Colberti	1972	French actress
57	Emma Jung	1882	Psychoanalyst and writer
58	Emma Soames	1949	British editor
59	Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1858	Queen consort of the Netherlands, 1879–1890
60	Emma McKeon	1994	Australian swimmer
61	Emma Starr	1971	American pornographic actress
62	Emma Elizabeth Smith	1843	Whitechapel murder victim
63	Emma Willard	1787	Women's rights activist
64	Emma Orczy	1865	Hungarian-British author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
65	Emma Louise	1993	Australian singer
66	Emma Wray	1965	Actress
67	Emma Ferguson	1976	British actress
68	Emma Woodhouse
69	Emma Hewitt	1988	Australian singer-songwriter and trance vocalist
70	Emma Dent Coad
71	Emma Alberici	1970	Australian journalist
72	Emma Marrone	1984	Italian singer
73	Emma Fryer		British stand-up comedian, actress
74	Gui Gui	1989	Taiwanese singer and actress
75	Emma Crosby	1977	Television newsreader and journalist, best known for co-presenting GMTV
76	Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland	2000	Welsh-born British noblewoman
77	Emma Miskew	1989	Canadian curler
78	Emma Jane Unsworth	1978	Author
79	Emma D'Aquino	1966	Italian journalist
80	Emma Hatton	1983	British actress
81	Emma Noble	1971	British model
82	Emma Suárez	1964	Spanish actress
83	Emma Lung	1982	Australian actress
84	Emma Spool
85	Emma Anderson	1967	English musician
86	Emma Dench
87	Emma Walmsley	1969	British businesswoman
88	Emma Ruth Rundle	1983	American singer
89	Emma Sky	2000	British political advisor
90	Emma Davies	1970	British actress
91	Emma Bading	1998	German actress
92	Emma Shapplin	1974	French operatic coloratura soprano
93	Emma Wiklund	1968	Swedish actress
94	Emma Pooley	1982	Road racing cyclist
95	Emma Byrne	1979	Association footballer
96	Emma Griffiths Malin	1980	British actress
97	Emma Cunniffe	1973	Film, stage and television actress
98	Emma Reynolds	1977	British politician
99	Emma Nelson
100	Emma Williams	1983	British actress
101	Emma Tillinger Koskoff	2000	American film producer
102	Emma Bonino	1948	Italian politician
103	Emma Trott	1989	English racing cyclist
104	Emma Cline	1989
105	Emma Tate		British actress
106	Emma Ross	1998	Character from Jessie
107	Emma McCune	1964	British acativist
108	Emma Snowsill	1981	Triathlete
109	Emma Lockhart	1994	American child actress
110	Emma Kirkby	1949	English soprano
111	Emma Nutt	1860	American telephone operator
112	Emma Taylor-Isherwood	1987	Canadian actress
113	Emma Nicholson	1941	British politician, life peer
114	Emma Tennant	1937	British writer
115	Emma Eckstein	1865	Austrian author and psychoanalysis subject
116	Emma Lowndes	1975	British actress
117	Emma Cleasby		British actress
118	Emma Pollock		Scottish singer
119	Emma Lewell-Buck	1978	British politician
120	Emma Meesseman	1993	Belgian basketball player
121	Emma Leonard	1984	Australian actress
122	Emma Andersson	1979	Swedish TV personality/singer
123	Emma Leth	1990	Danish actress
124	Emma Townshend	1969	British writer
125	Emma Fitzpatrick	1985	American actress
126	Emma Stansfield	1978	British actress
127	Emma Roche	1976	Australian actress
128	Emma Zimmer	1888	Ravensbrook concentration camp overseer
129	Emma Molin	1979	Swedish actress
130	Emma Bardac	1862	French singer
131	Emma Rice	1967
132	Emma Curtis Hopkins	1849	American New thought writer, clergy
133	Emma Johansson	1983	Swedish road racing cyclist
134	Emma Clarke	1971	British voice-over artist
135	Emma of Lesum	1100	German countess
136	Emma Dunn	1875	Actress
137	Emma Burstall		British writer
138	Emma Lohoues	1986	Ivorian actor
139	Emma Herwegh	1817	German writer (1817-1904)
140	Emma Hayes	1976	English footballer
141	Emma Cohen	1946	Actress
142	Emma Hamberg	1971	Swedish writer
143	Emma Husar	1980	Australian politician
144	Emma Bull	1954	American writer
145	Emma McLaughlin	1974	American writer
146	Emma Degerstedt	1992	Actress
147	Emma Waroka	1975
148	Emma Lavinia Gifford	1840	British suffragist
149	Emma Brockes	1975	British journalist and writer
150	Emma Brown Garett		Australian-Indian actress
151	Emma Calvé	1858	French operatic soprano
152	Emma Godoy	1918	Mexican writer (1918-1989)
153	Emma Livry	1842	French ballet dancer
154	Emma Didlake	1905	American military personnel
155	Emma Spencer	1978	British television presenter and horse racing journalist
156	Emma Drogunova	1996	German film actor
157	Emma Catherwood	1981	British actress
158	Emma Tillman	1892	Supercentenarian, oldest person in the world
159	Emma Rabbe	1969	Venezuelan television actress
160	Emma Bale	1999	Belgian singer
161	Emma de Guzman	1949	Claimed to see virgin Mary
162	Emma Johnson	1966	British clarinettist
163	Emma B	1979	British model
164	Emma Stevens	1986	Singer-songwriter
165	Emma Jackson
166	Emma Wilson	1967	British academic and writer
167	Emma Moffatt	1984	Triathlete
168	Emma Albani	1847	Canadian opera soprano
169	Emma Tenayuca	1916	American labor leader
170	Emma Frost
171	Emma Healey	1985	English writer
172	Emma Hardinge Britten	1823	British spiritualist
173	Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed	1876	French circus performer
174	Emma Harte
175	Emma Tonegato	1995
176	Emma Twigg	1987	New Zealand rower
177	Emma Mitchell	1992	Scottish footballer
178	Emma Wo	1990	American model
179	Emma Berglund	1988	Association football player
180	Emma Adenauer	1880	First spouse of Konrad Adenauer
181	Emma Smith DeVoe	1848	American suffragette
182	Emma Sansom	1847	Alabama farmgirl noted for her bravery during the American Civil War
183	Emma Harrison	1963	Entrepreneur
184	Emma O'Driscoll	1982	Irish dancer
185	Emma Johnston	1973	Australian marine ecologist
186	Emma Straub	2000	American writer
187	Emma Donovan	1981	Australian singer
188	Emma Laura	1971	Mexican actress
189	Emma Portman, Viscountess Portman	1809	British viscountess
190	Emma Nyra	1988	Nigerian singer-songwriter, actress and model
191	Emma Härdelin	1975	Swedish musician
192	Emma Pask	1977	Australian singer
193	Emma of France	0894	French princess
194	Emma McClarkin	1978	British politician
195	Emma Miller	1839	Union organizer, suffragist, founder of Australian Labour Party
196	Emma Stebbins	1815	American artist
197	Emma Amos	1938	American painter
198	Emma Wareus	1990	Miss Botswana 2010, 1st runner-up to Miss World 2010
199	Emma of Italy	0948	Queen of Franks
200	Emma Rayne Lyle	2003	Actress