Emmy
Where Emmy comes from
Emmy hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1882Emmy Noether bornGerman Jewish mathematician
- 1885First appearance#793 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1893Emmy Göring bornGerman actress, art collector
- 2025Peak, #445695 babies named Emmy — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
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.