Emon

Emon is a Bengali and Japanese name. In both cultures it may be both a given name and a surname.

Statistics

The 2010 United States Census found 120 people with the surname Emon, making it the 139,228th-most-common surname in the country. This represented an increase from 107 people (142,819th-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both censuses, slightly less than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname Emon identified as non-Hispanic white, and about seven percent as Asian.[1]

People

Bengali

The Bengali name (ইমন), originating from the Arabic word iman, means "religious faith".[2] People with this name include:

Japanese

The Japanese name (衛門) means "palace guard" – literally, "guardian () of the gate ()".[3] People with this name include:

  • Emon Saburō (衛門 三郎), legendary figure of early ninth-century Japan
  • Akazome Emon (赤染 衛門, died 1041), Japanese waka poet

Other

References

  1. "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  2. Biswas, Sailendra (2004). "ইমান". Samsada Bangala abhidhana (7th ed.). Calcutta: Sahitya Samsad. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  3. "衛門". goo国語辞書. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
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