# Ema (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ema/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,857 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 4,857 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 988, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 161 | 1,417 |
| 2012 | 136 | 1,594 |
| 2013 | 137 | 1,571 |
| 2014 | 145 | 1,515 |
| 2015 | 156 | 1,472 |
| 2016 | 151 | 1,506 |
| 2017 | 130 | 1,657 |
| 2018 | 124 | 1,678 |
| 2019 | 150 | 1,468 |
| 2020 | 141 | 1,513 |
| 2021 | 106 | 1,877 |
| 2022 | 144 | 1,510 |
| 2023 | 156 | 1,431 |
| 2024 | 136 | 1,561 |
| 2025 | 164 | 1,349 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 59 | 665 |
| 2012 | 44 | 857 |
| 2013 | 52 | 750 |
| 2014 | 39 | 940 |
| 2015 | 62 | 656 |
| 2016 | 55 | 727 |
| 2017 | 71 | 593 |
| 2018 | 57 | 701 |
| 2019 | 47 | 796 |
| 2020 | 47 | 771 |
| 2021 | 52 | 720 |
| 2022 | 50 | 729 |
| 2023 | 47 | 754 |
| 2024 | 48 | 776 |
| 2025 | 37 | 951 |

## People named Ema

- Ema Horvath, American actress
- Ema Derossi-Bjelajac, Croatian politician
- Ema Burgić Bucko, Bosnian tennis player
- Ema Pukšec, Croatian opera singer
- Emma of France, French princess
- Hemma of Gurk, Carinthian princess, founder of Catholic churches and monasteries, and saint (c.980-1045)
- Emika, British DJ and music producer (1986-)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.