Emmy

Where Emmy comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Emmy.

  • Vowel-ended
Emmy through the years
  1. 1882
    Emmy Noether born
    German Jewish mathematician
  2. 1885
    First appearance
    #793 among girls with 8 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1893
    Emmy Göring born
    German actress, art collector
  4. 2025
    Peak, #445
    695 babies named Emmy, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Emmy Noether · German Jewish mathematician, 1882–1935
  • Emmy Göring · German actress, art collector, 1893–1973
  • Emmy · Norwegian singer and songwriter, born 2000
  • Emmy Raver-Lampman · American actress and singer, born 1988
  • Emmy Hennings · German poet, editor, 1885–1948

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.