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Emmersen

Gender
Girl
Say it
EM-er-sun
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Emmersen is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “son of Emery”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Emmersen mean?

English: spelling of Emerson; English surname

“son of Emery”

From an English surname meaning son of Emery; associated with the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Meaning borrowed from Emerson. More on Wiktionary.

Is Emmersen a girl's or a boy's name?

Emmersen 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 Emmersen in the US?

Rank in 2025
14,937th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Emmersen, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2014, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.

Half of all the girls named Emmersen in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 4,560 girls in the US were given Emmersen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #59, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

2002Busiest: 17 in 20142025
Emmersen in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20245#15,288
20230–
20227#12,237
20210–
20200–
20199#10,467
20187#12,459
20170–
201617#6,898
20159#10,861
201417#6,985
20139#10,995
20129#11,251
201113#8,610
201010#10,446
20098#12,423
200815#8,105
20075#17,630
20069#11,412
20059#10,915
20040–
20038#11,319
20027#12,181

Names like Emmersen

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Emmersen

More English names

Every English name

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, “Emmersen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emmersen, updated 20 October 2026.