Name Emmuska Gender Feminine Usage Hungarian Pronounced Pron. EM-moosh-ka Edit Status Status Added 9/23/2011 by SeaHorse15 Edited 1/2/2019 by Lucille Meaning & History Diminutive of EMMA. The novelist Baroness Emma "Emmuska" Orczy (1865-1947) wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel series.