Émma

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Émma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From German Emma. First recorded in Sweden in 1766.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 668(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 6.2M
  • SESweden1 in 132

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

498,221 people, 2020

Sources
396 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 132 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Emma in US United States, FR France, SE Sweden and 1 more.

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 German Emma. First recorded in Sweden in 1766.

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Irish first names
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Émma 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.

Where Émma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—498,2211 in 668497KEmma304
SE Sweden—77,4901 in 13277KEmma47
ES Spain—47,5621 in 1.1K48KEmma58
EC Ecuador—25,7891 in 65626K—5
DK Denmark—22,5901 in 26023K—1
HU Hungary—20,2631 in 48220K—1
FI Finland—18,2371 in 30625K—20
NO Norway—14,2811 in 38346K—18
FR France#110≈11 est.≈1 in 6.2M174KEmma396

498,221 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Émma is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, United States, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Emma, Emmä, Ëmmä, Emmá, Emma'

  • Russian given name81 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian

    Also written Эмма, Емма, Ema, Emma, Эма

  • Spanish given name72 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Spain, Laos, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Italian, Thai

    Also written Imma, Emma, Ema, Имма, อิ่มมา

  • English given name110 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Emma, Ema, Էմմա, ემა, Εμμα

5 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Émma under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Émma mean, and where does it come from?
From German Emma. First recorded in Sweden in 1766. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
Is Émma a male or female name?
Émma is a female 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 Émma have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 498 thousand people named Émma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emma.
Where is Émma most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Émma is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 132 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Émma?
In the United States, the national register counted 498,221 people named Émma in 2020, about 1 in 668 residents.
How common is Émma compared with other names?
In France, Émma is the 110th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

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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, “Émma” — the 110th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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