Embla is the first woman in Norse mythology — created by Odin and his brothers from the elm tree, paired with Ask (the first man, from the ash tree). The name shares the root with elm.
Embla is rising in modern Iceland and Scandinavia.
Embla does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Embla reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.