Name: Emma
Gender: Female
Usage: Emma, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Emma are in general originating from Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Emma across the world, see Emily.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Emma is: All-containing, Whole.
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Numerology of the first name Emma: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Emma is ranked on the 161st position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 3403600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.047% of the population. The name Emma has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Emma for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Emma is 19 April.
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History and Origin
Emma is a given female 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 Emily, 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, 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 girl's name 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 and rising to third place on the popularity chart in 2007. It was the most popular name for girls in the United States in 2008, but fell back to second place in 2009.
English: of Germanic origin, introduced to Britain by the Normans. It was the name of the mother of Edward the Confessor. It originated as a short form of the medieval versions of compound names such as Ermintrude and Irmgard, containing the element erm(en), irm(en) entire (cf. Irma). It is now sometimes used as a pet form of Emily, but this is etymologically unjustified.
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