Eman
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A language spoken in Cameroon
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 389(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 443
- BHBahrain≈1 in 585
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 389 (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A language spoken in Cameroon.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #23 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 389 | — | Eman | 149 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Eman | 65 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #99 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Eman | 144 |
| JO Jordan | #169 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 443 | — | Eman | 89 |
| SY Syria | #152 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Eman | 24 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #65 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Eman | 109 |
| US United States | — | 5,233 | 1 in 64K | 4.8K | Eman | 258 |
| KW Kuwait | #51 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 687 | — | Eman | 82 |
| BH Bahrain | #13 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 585 | — | Eman | 59 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Eman is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Trust, security
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Esperanto, accusative singular of ema
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, to give
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kurdish, mercy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, give
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George E. Vaillantb. 1934USnot in their usual nameAmerican psychiatrist
- Valeria Porokhovab. 1940RUnot in their usual nameRussian translator, interpreter (1940-2019)
- Eman al-Nafjanb. 1950SASaudi Arabian blogger, writer and women's rights activist
- Eman Ahmedb. 1980EGconsidered to be the heaviest living woman in the world and the second heaviest woman in history (after Carol Yager)
- Eman Lamb. 1982CNHong Kong singer-songwriter
- Eman El-Asyb. 1985EGEgyptian actress
- Eman Esfandib. 1997USPersian-American actor and rapper
- Eman Markovićb. 1999NONorwegian association football player
- Eman Košpob. 2007CHBosnia and Herzegovina association football player (born 2007)
- Eman GhoneimEGEgyptian geomorphologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 76 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #3,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 416 | #3,789 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 64 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 23 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Eman mean, and where does it come from?
- A language spoken in Cameroon. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Eman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,233 people named Eman in 2020, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Eman compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Eman is the 23rd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Eman?
- A machine transcription gives /mən/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Eman a male or female name?
- Eman is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Eman?
- In the etymology graph, Imani is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Eman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 268 thousand people named Eman in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eman.
What do you want to know about Eman?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eman” — the 23rd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.