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Female Name
Usage
Old Norse
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
German name
1) Younger form of Erma [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
2) Short form of Emerentia [1]
3) Pet form of Emilia [4] [6]
Related Names
See also Emika, Emina, Emmi, Emmoš, Íma, Imma
For male forms see Emmar, Emmerich, Emmet
Male
Emmuson
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Female
Emmudóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see EMM (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Emma
|
Genitive: |
Emmas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Emma
|
Accusative: |
Emmu
|
Dative: |
Emmu
|
Genitive: |
Emmu
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Emma
|
Genitive: |
Emman
|
Partitive: |
Emmaa
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Emma
|
Accusative: |
Emmu
|
Dative: |
Emmu
|
Genitive: |
Emmu
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Emma
|
Genitive: |
Emmas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Emma
|
Genitive: |
Emmas
|
Name Days
Faroe Islands
|
23 January
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Finland
|
19 May
|
Norway
|
23 January
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
19 May
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Sweden
|
23 July
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[12] |
|
50484 |
75823 |
50468 |
75800 |
16 |
23 |
Denmark[11] |
|
20475 |
n.a. |
20474 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
23137 |
n.a. |
23137 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[16] |
|
413 |
614 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[17] |
|
78 |
224 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
12403 |
n.a. |
12390 |
n.a. |
13 |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [12][11][14][13]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [18]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Emma (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables