Emmah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- EM-a
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Emmah is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “whole, universal”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Emmah mean?
Germanic: spelling of Emma; short form of Germanic names beginning with ermen
“whole, universal”
Borne by Emma of Normandy, twice queen of England in the 11th century, and by Jane Austen's heroine Emma Woodhouse.
Meaning borrowed from Emma. More on Wiktionary.
Is Emmah a girl's or a boy's name?
Emmah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Emmah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 63% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Emmah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 78 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had the fewest girls named Emmah since it first appeared, in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Emmah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 12,923 girls in the US were given Emmah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #5, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Emmah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,962 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,982 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,336 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,249 |
| 2015 | 57 | #3,001 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,776 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,041 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,005 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,131 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,840 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,087 |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,441 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,125 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,135 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,861 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,067 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,468 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,175 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,317 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,700 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
Nicknames for Emmah
- Em
- Emmy 132 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Emmah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Aaliyah Zaniyah Safa Zainab Farah Kaliyah Jaliyah Naziyah Zaliyah Zaya Zaira
Other spellings of Emmah
Names related to Emmah
More Germanic names
Amelia Liam Henry Charlotte William Archie Charlie Freddie Ella Harry Millie Albie Matilda Louie Miles Alice
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Emmah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emmah, updated 20 October 2026.