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.

People

Bengali

The Bengali name (), originating from the Arabic word iman, means "religious faith". 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
• Emon Ibrahim Miah, Best Bengali Boy

Japanese

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

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

Other

• Albert Emon (born 1953), French football manager

References