Emmy (given name)
Template:Infobox given name Emmy is a feminine (sometimes also masculine) given name.
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,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Notable people with the name include:
- Emmy Andriesse (1914–1953), Dutch photographer
- Emmie Charayron (born 1990), French triathlete
- Emmy Krüger (1886-1976), German operatic soprano
- Emmy Loose (1914-1987), Austrian operatic soprano
- Emmie te Nijenhuis (born 1931), Dutch ethnomusicologist
- Emmy Noether (1882–1935), Bavarian Jewish mathematician
- Emmy Okello (born 1977), Ugandan consultant physician
- Emmie Owen (1871-1905), English opera singer and actress
- Emmy Stradal (1877–1925), Austrian politician
- Emmy Mercedes Todtmann (1888–1973), German glacial geologist
- Emmy Verhey (born 1949), Dutch violinist
- Emmy von Egidy (1872- 1946 in Weimar), German sculptor and writer.
- Emmy Wehlen (1887–1977), German actress
- Emmy Werner (1929–2017), American developmental psychologist
As a familiar form of Emma
- Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999, born Emma Frith Bridgwater), English artist and poet
- Emmy Göring (1893-1973, born Emma Johanna Henny 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
- Emmy Bezzina (born 1945), male Maltese politician
- Emmy Rossum (born 1986 as Emmanuelle Grey Rossum), American actress
Other
- Emmy Clarke (born 1991 as Mary Elizabeth Clarke), American actress
Fictional characters
- Emmy Altava, the character from the Professor Layton series
- Granny (Looney Tunes), the Looney Tunes character nicknamed Emmy in Hare Trimmed
- Emmy, the main character from the PBS animated preschool television series Dragon Tales
See also
References
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- ↑ 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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