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Emma

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English

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Etymology

Brought to England by the Normans; short form of compound given names beginning with a Frankish prototheme Ermin- or Irmin- "entire", from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Emma

  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • 1854, Matthew Hall, The Queens Before the Conquest, pages 259–260:
      Both Saxon and Norman chroniclers unite in representing the youthful Queen Emma as in a peculiar degree gifted with elegance and beauty; so that many flattering epithets had been bestowed on her - as "the Pearl," "the Flower," or "the Fair Maid" of Normandy.
    • 1917, Carl Van Vechten, Interpreters and Interpretations., A.A.Knopf, page 92:
      Emma Calvé...since Madame Bovary the name Emma suggests a solid bourgeois foundation, a country family...Emma Eames, a chilly name...a wind from the East.
    • 1980, Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves, →ISBN, page 8:
      The cottage now belonged to Emma's mother Beatrix, who was a tutor in English literature at a women's college, specialising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. This may have accounted for Emma's Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily, a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights, so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.
    • 2019 August 13, Devan Cole and Caroline Kelly, “Cuccinelli rewrites Statue of Liberty poem to make case for limiting immigration”, in CNN‎:
      Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus – whose words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” are long associated with immigration to the US and the nation’s history as a haven – as part of a case for strict new measures pushed Monday by the Trump administration that could dramatically change the legal immigration system.

Usage notes

  • Used in England since the Norman Conquest, fashionable in the 19th century, and again in the U.K. from the 1970s to the 1990s, and in the U.S.A. in the 1990s and the 2000s.

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English Emma.

Proper noun

Emma

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from the Germanic languages]

Danish

Etymology

From German Emma.

Proper noun

Emma

  1. a female given name

References

  • Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 21 325 females with the given name have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Emma.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Emma f

  1. a female given name

Estonian

Etymology

From German Emma.

Proper noun

Emma

  1. a female given name

Faroese

Proper noun

Emma f

  1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

  • son of Emma: Emmuson
  • daughter of Emma: Emmudóttir

Declension

More information singular, indefinite ...

Finnish

Etymology

From German Emma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈemːɑ/, [ˈe̞mːɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -emːɑ
  • Syllabification(key): Em‧ma
  • Hyphenation(key): Em‧ma

Proper noun

Emma

  1. a female given name
    • 1929 Väinö Siikaniemi/folk melody, Emma (song), in Suuri Toivelaulukirja, F-Kustannus Oy (2003), →ISBN, page 210:
      Oi muistatkos, Emma, sen kuutamoillan,
      kun yhdessä tansseista kuljettiin?
      Sinä sanasi annoit ja valasi vannoit
      ja lupasit olla mun omani.
      Oi Emma, Emma, oi Emma, Emma,
      kun lupasit olla mun omani.
      Oh Emma, do you remember that moonlit night
      when we were walking back from the dance together?
      You gave your word and made your vows
      and promised to be mine.
      Oh Emma, Emma, oh Emma, Emma,
      when you promised to be mine.
    • 1964, Kaarina Helakisa, Kaarina Helakisan satukirja, WSOY, page 10:
      ―Kuulepa lintu, sinun nimesi olkoon Emma, se on totta vieköön iloinen ja hupsu nimi, poika sanoi.
      ―Listen birdie, your name shall be Emma, that is indeed a happy and silly name, the boy said.
    • 1985, Keijo Siekkinen, Äidin hauta, Gummerus, →ISBN, page 9:
      Minulla on sana, josta pidän erityisen paljon, vaikka se ei ole paljon minkään näköinen, se on pulska niin kuin sinä ennen kuin rupesit laihtumaan. Sen sanan nimi on semmoinen. Minä laitan sen sinnekin minne se ei käy. Vaikka se on pulska niin se on kevyt. Se on niin kuin Emma. Emmalle me löydettiin nimi Messukylän vanhalta hautausmaalta.
      I have a word that I really like, even if it doesn't look like it much, it's rotund like you before you started losing weight. The name of the word is just like that. I'll stick it even in places where it doesn't belong, even if it's fleshy yet light. It's like Emma, whose name we found from the old Messukylä graveyard.

Usage notes

  • Popular in Finland at the end of the 19th century and again in the 2000s.

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Statistics

  • Emma is the 42nd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 14,963 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,647 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

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French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Emma f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Emma
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary: Part II, Chapter III::
      Charles désirait qu’on appelât l’enfant comme sa mère ; Emma s’y opposait. On parcourut le calendrier d’un bout à l’autre, et l’on consulta les étrangers.
      Charles wanted the child to be called after her mother; Emma opposed this. They ran over the calendar from end to end, and then consulted outsiders.

Usage notes

  • Popular in France in the 2000s.
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German

Etymology

Short form of compound female given names beginning with Proto-Germanic *ermana, Proto-Germanic *irmina "whole, entire".

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Emma

  1. a female given name

Usage notes

  • Name of medieval German saints and queens. Popular in Germany in the 19th century and becoming popular in the 2000s.

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1852. From German Emma.

Proper noun

Emma f

  1. a female given name

Usage notes

  • Popular in Latvia in the end of the 19th century

References

  • Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
  • Population Register of Latvia: Emma was the only given name of 687 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Norwegian

Etymology

From German Emma. First recorded in Norway in the 1790s.

Proper noun

Emma

  1. a female given name

References

  • Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
  • Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 8 241 females with the given name Emma living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈema/ [ˈe.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ema
  • Syllabification: Em‧ma

Proper noun

Emma f

  1. a female given name

Swedish

Etymology

From German Emma. First recorded in Sweden in 1766.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Emma c (genitive Emmas)

  1. a female given name

References

  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 69 488 females with the given name Emma living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Emma.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Emma (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋ)

  1. a female given name from English

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