Emma (first name)
Emma is a female given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
Emma is an independent name, but can also be used as a short form of names that contain the Old High German word erm (en) , irm (en) ("all-encompassing").
distribution
In the last years of the 19th and the first of the 20th century Emma was one of the ten most frequently given female first names in Germany. The popularity of the name continued to decline in the period that followed. Since the mid-1990s, there has been another sharp rise in its popularity. Since the end of the 2000s, the name has been back in the "Top 10" of the frequency statistics and in 2014 Emma reached number 1 in the statistics.
variants
Name days
- January 31 - Emma (Hemma) , Queen of the East Franconia
- April 19 - Emma (Imma, Hemma) from Paderborn
- June 27th - Hemma von Gurk , the patroness of Carinthia
- September 9th - Emma Üffing (religious name: Sr. Maria Euthymia)
- December 10th - Emma (Imma) von Würzburg, the daughter of the last tribal duke of the Thuringians
Well-known namesake
- Emma (* 1974), British singer, see Emma Booth
- Emma (* 1984), Italian singer, see Emma Marrone
- Emma , Queen of Kent , († 642)
- Emma von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1802–1858), regent of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 1845 to 1852
- Emma of Bohemia (* before 950; † around 1006), Bohemian princess, wife and widow of Boleslav II.
- Emma of Normandy (around 987–1052), Queen of England
- Emma Aberle (1886–1949), German writer and poet
- Emma Abbott (1850-1891), American opera singer
- Emma Adenauer (1880–1916), first wife of Konrad Adenauer
- Emma Adler (1858–1935), Austrian journalist and writer
- Emma Albani (1847–1930), Canadian opera singer
- Emma Ayres (* 1967), British-Australian violist, music teacher and radio presenter
- Emma Boos-Jegher (1857–1932), Swiss women's rights activist
- Emma Bormann (1887–1974), Austrian painter and graphic artist
- Emma Bunton (born 1976), British singer
- Emma Claesson (* 1977), Swedish orienteer
- Emma Coradi-Stahl (1846–1912), Swiss women's rights activist
- Emma Cotta (1880–1957), German actress
- Emma Cumming (* 1998), New Zealand cyclist
- Emma Darwin (1808-1896), cousin and wife of the English naturalist Charles Darwin
- Emma Döll (1873–1930), German politician (USPD / KPD)
- Emma Goldman (1869–1940), American peace activist
- Emma Graf (1865–1926), Swiss women's rights activist
- Emma Green (* 1984), Swedish high jumper
- Emma Grimm (* 1996), German actress and voice actress
- Emma Guo (* 1995), Australian chess player
- Emma Hamilton (1765–1815), mistress of Horatio Nelson
- Emma Hewitt (* 1988), Australian singer and songwriter
- Emma Kirkby (* 1949), English soprano
- Emma Klingenberg (* 1992), Danish orienteer
- Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), American poet
- Emma Marcegaglia (* 1965), Italian entrepreneur
- Emma Nordin (* 1991), Swedish ice hockey player
- Emma Ott (1907–2011), Swiss nurse
- Emma Poel (1811–1891), German co-founder of Diakonie in Germany
- Emma Roca Rodríguez (* 1973), Spanish ski mountaineer
- Emma Roberts (* 1991), American actress
- Emma Ruth Rundle (* 1983), American singer and guitarist
- Emma Schweiger (* 2002), German child actress and presenter
- Emma Shapplin (* 1974), French singer
- Emma Stone (* 1988), American actress
- Emma Thompson (born 1959), British actress
- Emma to Waldeck and Pyrmont (1858–1934), as the second wife of Wilhelm III. Queen of the Netherlands
- Emma Watson (born 1990), British actress
- Emma Wiklund (* 1968), Swedish actress
- Emma Zimmer (1888–1948), German concentration camp guard
- Emma Zöllner (1827–1910), Austrian local singer and soubrette
Fictional people
- Emma Bovary , title character in the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Emma Woodhouse , the title character of the novel Emma by Jane Austen
- Emma Peel , figure from the series With Umbrella, Charm and Melon
- Emma , the locomotive in Michael Ende's Jim Knopf and Lukas the engine driver
- Emma Morley , the title character of the novel One Day by David Nicholls
- Emma , the mascot of the Bundesliga soccer team Borussia Dortmund . The bee was named after Lothar Emmerich .
- Emma Carstairs , title character in the novel Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
Web links
Wiktionary: Emma - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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- ↑ Patrick Hanks, Kate Hardcastle and Flavia Hodges: A Dictionary of First Names . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1 , pp. 90-91 (English).
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"