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 nickname, Emmy ranked 66th in Sweden and 89th in France as of 2010.[1]
Emmy is rarely also encountered as a
surname.[citation needed]
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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.
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