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,
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
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