Emon

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Emon is a Bengali and Japanese name. In both cultures it may be both a given name and a surname.

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Statistics

The 2010 United States Census found 120 people with the surname Emon, making it the 139,228th-most-common surname in the country. This represented an increase from 107 people (142,819th-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both censuses, slightly less than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname Emon identified as non-Hispanic white, and about seven percent as Asian. [1]

People

Bengali

The Bengali name (ইমন), originating from the Arabic word iman , means "religious faith". [2] People with this name include:

Japanese

The Japanese name (衛門) means "palace guard" – literally, "guardian () of the gate ()". [3] People with this name include:

Other

References

  1. "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  2. Biswas, Sailendra (2004). "ইমান". Samsada Bangala abhidhana (7th ed.). Calcutta: Sahitya Samsad. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  3. "衛門". goo国語辞書. Retrieved 28 March 2018.