Emon Explained

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 (Bengali: 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, Bangladeshi film director
• Emon Saha, Bangladeshi composer
• Emon Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Emon Chowdhury, Bangladeshi musician

Japanese

See also: Iemon. The Japanese name means "palace guard" – literally, "guardian of the gate ".^[3] People with this name include:

• , legendary figure of early ninth-century Japan
• , Japanese waka poet

Other

• Albert Emon (born 1953), French football manager

Notes and References

1. Web site: How common is your last name?. Newsday. 5 September 2018.
2. Book: Biswas, Sailendra. https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/biswas-bangala_query.py?qs=ইমান&matchtype=default. ইমান. Samsada Bangala abhidhana. 7th. Calcutta. Sahitya Samsad. 2004. 8 March 2024.
3. Book: https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/25504/meaning/m0u/%E8%A1%9B%E9%96%80/. 衛門. ja:goo国語辞書. 28 March 2018.