Émerson
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Émerson is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Emery + -son.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 3K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 6.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
173,209 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Emerson in US United States, GT Guatemala.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Emery + -son.
Cited for this meaning 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Émerson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 173,209 | 1 in 1.2K | 178K | Émerson | 40 |
| US United States | — | 43,461 | 1 in 7.7K | 31K | Emerson | 244 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,634 | 1 in 3K | 5.6K | — | 36 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 773 | 1 in 6.6K | 773 | — | 34 |
| ES Spain | — | 324 | 1 in 154K | 324 | — | 70 |
| GY Guyana | — | 39 | 1 in 19K | 39 | — | — |
| GT Guatemala | #238 | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Emerson | 46 |
173,209 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling emerson. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Émerson Leãob. 1949BRBrazilian association football player and manager
- Émerson de Souza Ferretib. 1971BRBrazilian association football player
- Émerson Luiz Firminob. 1973BRBrazilian association football player
- Émerson Iser Bemb. 1973BRBrazilian athletics competitor
- Émerson Carvalho da Silvab. 1975BRBrazilian association football player
- Émerson Henrique Alvesb. 1976BRBrazilian association football player
- Émerson Ferreira Lopesb. 1977BRassociation football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 178K | #285 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Émerson mean, and where does it come from?
- From Emery + -son. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 1 other source.
- Is Émerson a male or female name?
- Émerson is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Émerson have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 173 thousand people named Émerson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled émerson.
- Where is Émerson most common?
- Émerson is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Émerson?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 173,209 people named Émerson in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Émerson compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Émerson is the 238th most common given name of 22,774 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Émerson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9mersonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Émerson” — the 238th most common given name in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.