Emmy (given name)

Emmy is a feminine (sometimes also masculine) given name.

Emmy
GenderFemale (Sometimes Male)
Origin
Meaningshort form of several names beginning in Em-
Other names
Related namesEmma, Emily, Emmanuelle

Orthographic variants include Emme, Emmi and Emmie. The name is in many instances a hypocoristic of either Emma (itself being in origin a hypocoristic of a number of ancient Germanic names beginning in Ermen-) or Emily, or Emmanuel (Emmanuelle). It came to be used as a separate (rare) German name, given officially in Germany from the later 19th century.

As an officially given feminine name, Emmy ranked 66th in Sweden and 89th in France as of 2010.[1] Emmy is rarely also encountered as a surname.

Notable people with the name include:

As a familiar form of Emma

  • Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999, born Emma Frith Bridgwater), English artist and poet
  • Emmy Göring (1893-1973, born Emma Sonnemann), German actress
  • Emmy Hennings (1885–1948, born Emma Maria Cordsen), German performer and poet

As a familiar form of Emilie

  • Emmy Destinn (1878–1930, born Emílie Pavlína Věnceslava Kittlová), Czech operatic soprano

As a familiar form of Emmanuel/Emmanuelle

Other

  • Emmy Clarke (born 1991 as Mary Elizabeth Clarke), American actress

Fictional characters

See also

  • Emy (disambiguation), a list of people with a very similar given name

References

  1. statistics cited after behindthename.com. In France, rank 89 was reached after a steady rise in popularity during the 2000s, starting out at rank 281 in 2001.
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