Emmy (given name)

Emmy

Gender	Female (sometimes male)
Origin
Meaning	short form of several names beginning in Em-
Other names
Related names	Emma, Emily, Emmanuelle

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,^{[ clarification needed ]} 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Notable people with the name include:

• Emmy Andriesse (1914–1953), Dutch photographer
• Emmie Charayron (born 1990), French triathlete
• Emmy Fecteau (born 1999), Canadian ice hockey player
• 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

• Emi (disambiguation)
• Emy (disambiguation)

References

1. 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.