Emma

emma emmä əmmâ English + (given name) Etymology Brought to England by the Normans; short form of compound given names beginning with a Frankish prototheme Ermin- or Irmin- "entire", from en gem-pro *ermunaz. Pronunciation en /ˈɛmə/ en ɛmə 2 en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Emma.wav Southern England Proper noun en female Germanic languages. en 1854 Matthew Hall The Queens Before the Conquest 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. en 1917 Carl Van Vechten Interpreters and Interpretations. 92 A.A.Knopf 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. en 1980 Barbara Pym A Few Green Leaves 0060805498 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. en Devan Cole and Caroline Kelly Cuccinelli rewrites Statue of Liberty poem to make case for limiting immigration w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/13/politics/ken-cuccinelli-statue-of-liberty/index.html 2019-08-13 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260527215612/https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/13/politics/ken-cuccinelli-statue-of-liberty/index.html 27 May 2026 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. Derived terms en Emma Chisit Emma Lake Emmabel Emmabeth Emmaite Emmalee Emmalyn Emmalynn Related terms (pet forms) Em, Emmie, Emmy (female given names) Ermengarde, Irma (surnames) Emmett, Emmitt, Emmott Translations female given name Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 埃瑪, cmn 艾瑪 Àimǎ Czech: cs Ema f Danish: da Emma Dutch: nl Emma f Estonian: et Emma Faroese: fo Emma f Finnish: fi Emma French: fr Emma German: de Emma Hawaiian: haw ʻEma Hebrew: he אמה f Icelandic: is Emma f Japanese: ja エマ ema Korean: ko ^엠마 Norwegian: no Emma Persian: fa اما emâ Portuguese: pt Ema f Russian: ru Э́мма f Slovak: sk Ema f Spanish: es Ema Swedish: sv Emma Thai: th เอ็มม่า Anagrams en aemm MMEA Cebuano Etymology ceb :der en:Emma + 1 Proper noun ceb noun ceb female English < Germanic languages Danish Etymology From da de Emma. Proper noun da proper noun da female 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 nl de Emma. Pronunciation nl nl-Emma.ogg Proper noun f nl female Estonian Etymology From et de Emma. Proper noun et proper noun et female Faroese Proper noun fo proper noun f fo female Usage notes f Emmuson Emmudóttir Declension Emma Emmu Emmu Emmu Finnish Etymology From fi de Emma, later also as a diminutive of fi Emilia. Pronunciation Proper noun fi female 1929 Väinö Siikaniemi/folk melody, Emma (song), in Suuri Toivelaulukirja, F-Kustannus Oy (2003), 951-643-668-4, page 210: fi Oi muistatkos, Emma, sen kuutamoillan,kun yhdessä tansseista kuljettiin?Sinä sanasi annoit ja valasi vannoitja lupasit olla mun omani.Oi Emma, Emma, oi Emma, Emma,kun lupasit olla mun omani. Oh Emma, do you remember that moonlit nightwhen we were walking back from the dance together?You gave your word and made your vowsand promised to be mine.Oh Emma, Emma, oh Emma, Emma,when you promised to be mine. fi 1964 w:fi:Kaarina Helakisa Kaarina Helakisan satukirja 10 WSOY ―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. fi 1985 w:fi:Keijo Siekkinen Äidin hauta Gummerus 951-20-2727-5 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 Emm a Related terms fi Emmi, fi Irma, fi Irmeli Statistics dvv_20250813 15432 2742 41 References Anagrams fi aemm amme fi terms with quotations French Pronunciation Èmma fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Emma.wav France Proper noun f fr female Emma 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. German Etymology Short form of compound female given names beginning with de gem-pro *ermana, de gem-pro *irmina "whole, entire". Pronunciation de De-Emma.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun de proper noun de female Usage notes Name of medieval German saints and queens. Popular in Germany in the 19th century and becoming popular in the 2000s. Related terms de Emmi, de Emmy, de Irma, de Irmgard Latvian Etymology First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1852. From lv de Emma. Proper noun lv proper noun f lv female Usage notes Popular in Latvia in the end of the 19th century References Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, 5-7966-0278-0 Population Register of Latvia: Emma was the only given name of 687 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010. Norwegian Etymology From no de Emma. First recorded in Norway in the 1790s. Proper noun no proper noun no female References Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, 82-521-4483-7 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. Spanish Pronunciation ema<hyph:E.mma> enma<hyph:Em.ma> Proper noun f es female Swedish Etymology From sv de Emma. First recorded in Sweden in 1766. Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Emma.wav Proper noun c sv female Related terms sv Emmy, sv Irma References Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0 Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 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 tl :bor en:Emma + 1 Pronunciation Ema Proper noun ema tl female English Anagrams tl aemm mema