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Emblem is a common 16th/17th century respelling of Emmeline (popularly pronounced Em-lin). Apparently there is a memorial in Chichester Cathedral to Emblem Miller, d. 1718, aged 17, so it was clearly a fairly popular spelling. Other spellings of the name include Emblin, Emlyn (also the spelling of a separate Welsh male name) and Imblen. (This information from The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, E. G. Withycombe, always worth a read).

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There is apparently no connection to the word 'emblem'.