# Emma
## English
### 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

* IPA: /ˈɛmə/
* Rhymes: -ɛmə
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Proper noun

Emma
* 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.

#### 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

* Emma Chisit
* Emma Lake

#### Related terms

* (pet forms) Em, Emmie, Emmy
* (female given names) Ermengarde, Irma
* (surnames) Emmett, Emmitt, Emmott

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* MMEA

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From English Emma.

### Proper noun

Emma
* a female given name from English [in turn from the Germanic languages]

## Danish
### Etymology

From German Emma.

### Proper noun

Emma
* 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.

## Estonian
### Etymology

From German Emma.

### Proper noun

Emma
* a female given name

## Faroese
### Proper noun

Emma f
* a female given name

#### Usage notes

Matronymics
* son of Emma: Emmuson
* daughter of Emma: Emmudóttir

#### Declension
## Finnish
### Etymology

From German Emma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈemːɑ/, [ˈe̞mːɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -emːɑ
* Hyphenation: Em‧ma

### Proper noun

Emma
* 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

Possessive forms of Emma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Emmani
Emmani
accusative
nom.
Emmani
Emmani
gen.
Emmani
genitive
Emmani
Emmojeni Emmaini $^{rare}$
partitive
Emmaani
Emmojani
inessive
Emmassani
Emmoissani
elative
Emmastani
Emmoistani
illative
Emmaani
Emmoihini
adessive
Emmallani
Emmoillani
ablative
Emmaltani
Emmoiltani
allative
Emmalleni
Emmoilleni
essive
Emmanani
Emmoinani
translative
Emmakseni
Emmoikseni
abessive
Emmattani
Emmoittani
instructive
comitative
—Emmoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Emmasi
Emmasi
accusative
nom.
Emmasi
Emmasi
gen.
Emmasi
genitive
Emmasi
Emmojesi Emmaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
Emmaasi
Emmojasi
inessive
Emmassasi
Emmoissasi
elative
Emmastasi
Emmoistasi
illative
Emmaasi
Emmoihisi
adessive
Emmallasi
Emmoillasi
ablative
Emmaltasi
Emmoiltasi
allative
Emmallesi
Emmoillesi
essive
Emmanasi
Emmoinasi
translative
Emmaksesi
Emmoiksesi
abessive
Emmattasi
Emmoittasi
instructive
comitative
—Emmoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Emmamme
Emmamme
accusative
nom.
Emmamme
Emmamme
gen.
Emmamme
genitive
Emmamme
Emmojemme Emmaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
Emmaamme
Emmojamme
inessive
Emmassamme
Emmoissamme
elative
Emmastamme
Emmoistamme
illative
Emmaamme
Emmoihimme
adessive
Emmallamme
Emmoillamme
ablative
Emmaltamme
Emmoiltamme
allative
Emmallemme
Emmoillemme
essive
Emmanamme
Emmoinamme
translative
Emmaksemme
Emmoiksemme
abessive
Emmattamme
Emmoittamme
instructive
comitative
—Emmoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Emmanne
Emmanne
accusative
nom.
Emmanne
Emmanne
gen.
Emmanne
genitive
Emmanne
Emmojenne Emmainne $^{rare}$
partitive
Emmaanne
Emmojanne
inessive
Emmassanne
Emmoissanne
elative
Emmastanne
Emmoistanne
illative
Emmaanne
Emmoihinne
adessive
Emmallanne
Emmoillanne
ablative
Emmaltanne
Emmoiltanne
allative
Emmallenne
Emmoillenne
essive
Emmananne
Emmoinanne
translative
Emmaksenne
Emmoiksenne
abessive
Emmattanne
Emmoittanne
instructive
comitative
—Emmoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Emmansa
Emmansa
accusative
nom.
Emmansa
Emmansa
gen.
Emmansa
genitive
Emmansa
Emmojensa Emmainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
Emmaansa
Emmojaan Emmojansa
inessive
Emmassaan Emmassansa
Emmoissaan Emmoissansa
elative
Emmastaan Emmastansa
Emmoistaan Emmoistansa
illative
Emmaansa
Emmoihinsa
adessive
Emmallaan Emmallansa
Emmoillaan Emmoillansa
ablative
Emmaltaan Emmaltansa
Emmoiltaan Emmoiltansa
allative
Emmalleen Emmallensa
Emmoilleen Emmoillensa
essive
Emmanaan Emmanansa
Emmoinaan Emmoinansa
translative
Emmakseen Emmaksensa
Emmoikseen Emmoiksensa
abessive
Emmattaan Emmattansa
Emmoittaan Emmoittansa
instructive
comitative
—Emmoineen Emmoinensa :

#### Related terms

* Emmi, Irma, Irmeli

#### 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.

### Anagrams

* amme

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ.ma/ ~ /e.ma/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Emma f
* 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.

## German
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Emma
* 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.

#### Related terms

* Emmi, Emmy, Irma, Irmgard

## Latvian
### Etymology

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

### Proper noun

Emma f
* 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
* 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.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈema/ [ˈe.ma]
* Rhymes: -ema
* Syllabification: Em‧ma

### Proper noun

Emma f
* a female given name

## Swedish
### Etymology

From German Emma. First recorded in Sweden in 1766.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Emma c (genitive Emmas)
* a female given name

#### Related terms

* Emmy, Irma

### 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

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔema/ [ˈʔɛː.mɐ]
* Rhymes: -ema
* Syllabification: E‧mma

### Proper noun

Emma (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋ)
* a female given name from English

### Anagrams

* mema