Emma



Gender:
Origin: German
1134 famous people named Emma found on Wikipedia.
672571 female, 1626 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 1st in year 2018
Best ranking: 1st in year 2018
Used in: Ancient-Germanic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

Meanings

A female given name, form of Erma.


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.


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-).


All-containing, universal, whole.

Famous People: 1134 found on Wikipedia.
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