Emerentia

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Emerentia is a female given name of Latin origin , mainly used in Bavaria and the Nordic countries, and also known in the following variants:

Emerenzia
Emerentiana
Emergence
Emerenziana
Emerita ("the worthy", "the deserving")
Meret

The male form is Emerentius and is common in Latvia (Mierinš) and Romance-speaking Switzerland (Merens).

Name bearer

Emerentia, mother of St. Anne
the holy Emerentia or Emerentiana , early Christian martyr around 304
Emerenz Meier (1874–1928), Bavarian folk poet
Emerentia Polhem, fiancee of Emanuel Swedenborg
Emerentia Vasa, sister of Gustav I. Wasa
Emerenz Rosner

Fictitious namesake

First name of the "dwarf" who serves in the dining room of the Berghof Sanatorium from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain .