The name Emerson is of Old English origin and means ‘Emery’s son’. Emery was introduced in the United Kingdom by the Normans towards the end of the Middle Ages and means ‘industrious’ or ‘powerful’.
Emerson is a first name for all genders.
The name Emerson is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #246 in the SmartGenius ranking.
The name Emerson is of Old English origin and means ‘Emery’s son’. Emery was introduced in the United Kingdom by the Normans towards the end of the Middle Ages and means ‘industrious’ or ‘powerful’.
Patronymic' is what... names like Emerson are called. It means the name or parts of the name are derived from the name of a male ancestor.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their child Emerson annualy. This means that there have been kids named Emerson who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus people named Emerson have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2019 it holds its present record at #208 in the ranking of the most popular first names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Emerson was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Emerson has never been ranked higher than #208. In 2022, it rivaled the 212 names that preceded it on the list. In total, 2,975 children named Emerson were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Emerson were born, there have been 119 newborns who were given this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.
With seven letters, the name Emerson has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 3.8% of all first names starting with an E, this initial letter occurs exactly as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Emerson and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Emerson, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Emerson sounds like this:
