girls:
749.9k births since 1880
#30 (99th percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1880
#3002 (35th percentile)
overall:
751.6k births since 1880
#74 (99th percentile)
The name Emma is the #74 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 751,604 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #30 (99.5% percentile) for all time with 749,903 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,002 (34.5% percentile) for all time with 1,701 births since 1880.
Emma has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Emma has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Emma reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 100.0% percentile (ranked #1) with 9,038 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 20,576 births per million (ranked 99.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Emma ranks #2 for girls (99.9% percentile) with 7,733 births per million, which is 37.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Emma reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 11.5% percentile (ranked #750) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 134 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Emma ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 6.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emma".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Emma. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Emma is pronounced as EH-muh, which has 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 M AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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