Emma
Right now Emma holds #3 in the country, with the crowd thinning around it. First recorded 1880, best year 2003, 776,439 bearers across the whole run.
What Emma carries
Emma · Teutonic
“grandmother”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Emma’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Emma, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Emma since 1880
Emma peaked in 2003 at #2; #3 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Emma is most common
Emma is most common in District of Columbia: 1.78% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Alaska (1.75%) and Wyoming (1.73%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Emma
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Ella
#29 in 2025 · Teutonic
Audrey
#86 in 2025 · Teutonic
Aubrey
#146 in 2025 · Teutonic
Carlos
#150 in 2025 · Teutonic
Henry
#5 in 2025 · Teutonic
Adeline
#59 in 2025 · Teutonic
William
#9 in 2025 · Teutonic
Caroline
#96 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with E · Teutonic names · all names
About Emma
How popular is the name Emma?
Right now Emma holds #3 in the country, with the crowd thinning around it. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Emma?
“grandmother” is the meaning our source sets down, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Emma?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Ella sits closest, with Audrey and Aubrey just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
Get Emma’s free Name Kit
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