What does the name Emma mean?

Emma means "From a Frankish name element meaning 'whole, entire'". It is a girl's name of Germanic origin.

Emma

Emma means From a Frankish name element meaning 'whole, entire'.

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Gender	girl
Origin	Germanic
Language	English
Starts with	E

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “From a Frankish name element meaning 'whole, entire'”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Henry — From Frankish Haimrik, from Proto-Germanic Haimarīks
Akhilesh — Lord of all, ruler of the entire universe
Avnish — Lord of the whole Earth, master of the world
Pooranmalbai — Lady of full moon, complete and whole
Ekansh — Whole, undivided and complete in all aspects

More girls' names of Germanic origin

Amelia — From a Germanic root meaning 'vigor, bravery'
Mia — A German, Dutch, and North Germanic diminutive of Maria
Ava — Of uncertain meaning; used as a variant of Eva/Eve, an anglicization of the Irish name Aoife, or from an uncertain Germanic root

Where this comes from

Emma has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.