The medieval name Emmeline was introduced to England by the Normans. Like many other names, it goes back to the Germanic word ‘amal’ for ‘vigorous’ or ‘brave’. Some more examples of this are Amalia and Amelia.
Emmeline is a first name for girls.
The name Emmeline isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Emmeline ranks 802. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Emmeline. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Emmeline.
The medieval name Emmeline was introduced to England by the Normans. Like many other names, it goes back to the Germanic word ‘amal’ for ‘vigorous’ or ‘brave’. Some more examples of this are Amalia and Amelia.
In the US,... Emmeline has never been more popular than in the 2010s, yet it has been in use since the 19th century.
You may not know anyone named Emmeline, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 34 states are home to women and girls named Emmeline. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Emmeline living in one state or another. If your name is Emmeline and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Emmeline relative to the population, you still have to ask 6,525 women and girls their names before you hear Emmeline as an answer just once.
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 girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Emmeline is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Emmeline 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 Emmeline, you can simply say:
Elephant
Mouse
Mouse
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Emmeline
Emmeline
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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M
M
E
L
I
N
E
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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M
M
E
L
I
N
E
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. Emmeline sounds like this:
