Emmeline

Old French form of archaic German Amal
"work"

Emmeline Origin and Meaning

The name Emmeline is a girl's name of German, French, English origin meaning "work".

Emmeline is an Emma relative and Emily cousin that is destined for greater use in the wake of the megapopularity of those two names. A recommended Nameberry fave, Emmeline hopped onto the US Top 1000 in 2014 for the first time ever. While it is genuinely an old name, it was rarely used a century ago; only 17 baby girls were named Emmeline in 1915, the same number as were named Ernie!

A popular medieval name, Emmeline was introduced to Britain by the Normans. It appeared as a character in Uncle Tom's Cabin, and is famous in Britain as the name of the illustrious suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst. Way back in 1980, it was the name of young Brooke Shields's innocent character in The Blue Lagoon. More recently, Emmeline Vance was a witch in the Harry Potter series.

Christian Bale has a daughter named Emmeline.

# 948 in the US

Emmeline Rank in US Top 1000

# 175 on Nameberry

Emmeline Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Emmeline Popularity

Famous People Named Emmeline

  • Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells
    American journalist and poet
  • Emmeline Pankhurst
    English suffragette
  • Emmeline Pethick
    Lawrence, Baroness Pethick,Lawrence, English feminist
  • Emmeline Ndongue
    French Olympic basketball player
  • Emmeline Stuart
    Wortley, English poet and writer
  • Emmeline Bale (b. 2005)
    daughter of actor Christian Bale

Emmeline in Pop Culture

  • "Emmeline
    The Orphan of the Castle," novel by Charlotte Turner Smith and its main character
  • Emmeline Vance
    character from the 'Harry Potter' series
  • Emmeline
    character in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Emmeline Hartford
    character in "The House At Riverton" by Kate Morton
  • Emmeline Lestrange
    character in the original novel/film "The Blue Lagoon"
  • Emmeline Mosher
    character in novel "Emmeline" by Judith Rossner
  • Emmeline Harris
    a character from the 'Anne of Green Gables' series
  • Emmeline Grangerford
    character in novel "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
  • Emmeline March
    character in novel "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield
  • "Emmeline
    " a song by Bruno Merz