Emon

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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

See also: Iman (disambiguation) § People

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

• Shawkat Ali Emon (born 1941), Bangladeshi composer
• Salman Shah (actor) (real name Chowdhury Muhammad Shahriar Emon; 1971–1996), Bangladeshi film and television actor
• Mamnun Hasan Emon (born 1983), Bangladeshi film actor
• Emon Mahmud Babu (born 1993), Bangladeshi footballer
• Anisul Islam Emon (born 1994), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Parvez Hossain Emon (born 2002), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Abu Shahed Emon (fl. 2000s), Bangladeshi film director
• Emon Saha (fl. 2000s), Bangladeshi composer
• Emon Ahmed (fl. 2008–2010), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Emon Chowdhury, Bangladeshi musician

Japanese

See also: Iemon

The Japanese name (衛門) means "palace guard" – literally, "guardian (衛) of the gate (門)".[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

• Albert Emon (born 1953), French football manager

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 8 March 2024.
3. "衛門". goo国語辞書. Retrieved 28 March 2018.