Emans
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɛmənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Emans is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered in Scotland and. see Emmins .
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 39K
- CNChina≈1 in 159K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered in Scotland and. see Emmins .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emans 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Emans | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 448 | 1 in 39K | 448 | Emans | 24 |
| US United States | 301 | 1 in 1.1M | 307 | Emans | 116 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 655K | — | Emans | 56 |
| MA Morocco | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 660K | — | Emans | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 43 | 1 in 273K | 43 | Emans | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 375K | — | Emans | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Emans is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Novecojusies ārpussistēmas mērvienība - E, kas lietota īpatnējās aktivitātes (radioaktīvo vielu koncentrācijas) mērīšanai šķidrumos vai gāzēs; 1 E = 3700 Bq/m³
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Franz Emansb. 1950DEGerman association football player
- S. Jean EmansUSresearcher
- Danielle EmansNLpsychologist and podcaster from the Netherlands
- Danielle EmansUSdesign communication scholar from the United States
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 448 | #4,392 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 307 | #69,002 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 301 | #65,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 264 | #69,428 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 43 | #29,203 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Emans mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered in Scotland and. see Emmins . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Emans?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛmənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Emans have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Emans in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emans.
- Where is Emans most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Emans is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Emans?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 448 people named Emans in 2007, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emansThe 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, “Emans”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.