Jane Austen Forever!
Liza Featherstone writes about Emma in Newsday.
This won’t surprise you if you’ve recently been anywhere near a playground: For two years running, Emma has been the second most popular name for a baby girl born in the United States (just after Emily). For devotees of Jane Austen’s eponymous novel, this might seem curious; when Austen began writing “Emma,” she declared, “I am going to take a heroine who nobody but myself will very much like.”
May 30th, 2005 at 8:11 pm
It is possible the the popularity of the name Emma for a girl comes from the popular TV show, “Friends.” Rachel named her baby Emma. I wish it was because of Jane Austen, but I doubt the literacy of the general population