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The EMMA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,026 23207 0 4
United States (1880 census) 44 52973 0 1
Change since 1880 +982 +29766 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for EMMA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 198 4222 0.002 24
New York 140 11725 0.001 7
California 102 19846 0.000 3
Massachusetts 90 7716 0.001 14
Pennsylvania 85 14775 0.001 7
Top States for EMMA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 50 2783 0.005 48
New Jersey 198 4222 0.002 24
Massachusetts 90 7716 0.001 14
Connecticut 26 15414 0.001 8
New York 140 11725 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called EMMA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called EMMA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called EMMA in New Jersey than any other state, but you are more likely to find a EMMA by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of EMMA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the EMMA surname.

Ethnic distribution of EMMA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 955 93.08
White (Hispanic) 26 2.53
Black/African American 24 2.34
Mixed Race 15 1.46
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the EMMA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

EMMA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of EMMA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of EMMA.

Similar names to EMMA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EMMA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for EMMA

The following words are slight variants of EMMA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.