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Emiliah

Girl · e-MEE-lee-a · Latin

Emiliah is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “rival”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Emiliah mean?

Latin: spelling of Emilia; feminine of the Roman family name Aemilius

“rival”

Feminine of the Roman family name Aemilius; in Shakespeare's Othello, Emilia is Iago's wife and Desdemona's outspoken companion.

Say it
e-MEE-lee-a

Meaning borrowed from Emilia. More on Wiktionary.

Is Emiliah a girl's or a boy's name?

Emiliah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Emiliah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Emiliah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2019, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.

Half of all the girls named Emiliah in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 5,238 girls in the US were given Emiliah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #47, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.

2009Busiest: 13 in 20192025
Emiliah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
20249#10,266
20239#10,307
20225#15,300
202111#8,973
20200–
201913#8,134
201812#8,612
20178#11,611
20160–
20156#14,477
20146#14,552
20130–
20120–
20116#14,816
20105#16,985
20096#15,236

Nicknames for Emiliah

Names like Emiliah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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