Embla
Embla is a girl name of Norse origin, meaning Elm; the first woman.
What Embla means
Elm; the first woman.
Embla sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Embla comes from
Old Norse names are usually compounds drawn from the natural world, from battle, or from the gods, carried across northern Europe by Scandinavian settlement.
Embla is recorded as Norse in origin. Browse other Norse names.
How popular is Embla?
Embla does not currently chart in the top 100 girl names. Rankings move constantly, and names can spend decades out of the lists before returning — so this says more about the present moment than about the name itself.
The character of Embla
We group Embla under the natural world and Life — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Embla
These share Embla's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Ava — Life, bird, living one.
- Chloe — Young green shoot; blooming.
- Aviva — Springlike; fresh.
- Ilana — Tree; flourishing.
- Persephone — Goddess of spring; bringer of life.
- Summer — The warm, bright season.
- Vesna — Slavic goddess of spring.
- Rohan — Ascending; blossoming.
- Xuan — Spring.
- Ingrid — Beautiful, beloved (of the god Ing).
- Dagny — New day.
- Liv — Life; protection.