Emerson - Meaning of Emerson

What does Emerson mean?

[ 3 syll. e-mer-son, em-ers-on ] The baby boy name Emerson is also used, and more commonly so, as a girl name. Its pronunciation is EHM-erSahN †. Emerson is largely used in the English language and its origin is Germanic. Emerson is a variant of the name Emery (English).

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Emerson is popular as a baby name for boys, and it is also viewed as trendy. The name's popularity has been rising since the 1990s. At the modest peak of its usage in 2017, 0.067% of baby boys were given the name Emerson. It ranked at #276 then. In 2018, its usage was 0.064% and its ranking #281, and it was the most popular out of all boy names in its group. In 2018, 4 times more boys were named Emerson than the subsequent ranked name, Emery. Though Emerson is currently more often than not a girl name, there was a period before 2001 when more boys were given the name. From 2002 on, increasingly more girls than boys were named Emerson. In 2017, the name Emerson was given to 57% more girls than boys.

Baby names that sound like Emerson include the names the name Emrason and the name Emreson.

† Pronunciation for Emerson: EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; S as in "see (S.IY)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"

A famous person named Emerson is Car Racer, Emerson Fittipaldi, born December 12, 1946, São Paulo, Brazil.



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