Meaning & origin
What it means
As a German surname, Emmer goes back to a word, meaning “grain.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Emmer has more than one origin: as a German surname, it comes from German; as a Dutch surname, it comes from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Emmer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,166
- 11 boys · 2,155 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 74 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 5 in 1963. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 69 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 279 as a first name in 2020; 1,021 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Emmer’s family of names
In English usage, Emmer as a surname has a related form in EMMERT.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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