Given name
Embla
Embla is a feminine given name. It is used in Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål, Faroese, and Norwegian Nynorsk.
Meaning & origin
The story
In mythological stories, Embla is associated with the first woman.
Embla through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 0 boys · 13 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Embla
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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