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Emilian

Gender
Boy
Origin
Latin
UK rank, 2025
#3,329 for boys
US rank, 2025
#5,044 for boys

Emilian is a boys' name of Latin origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,329th for boys in the UK (6 babies) and 5,044th for boys in the US (19 babies).

What does Emilian mean?

Latin

A male given name from Latin.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Emilian is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the UK and 19 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Emilian in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,329among boys
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 50,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 52% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 6 boys in the UK were named Emilian, making it the 3,329th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,819th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 13 boys.

Half of all the boys named Emilian in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among boys in 2025, it was 3,239th in England and Wales.

2005Busiest: 13 in 20152025
Emilian in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#3,329
20245#3,772
20230–
202211#2,143
20219#2,434
20207#2,819
20196#3,184
201810#2,234
20175#3,608
20168#2,690
201513#1,888
20144#4,063
20137#2,792
20126#3,167
20115#3,446
20107#2,775
20094#3,909
20080–
20070–
20060–
20051#5,109

How popular is Emilian in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,044among boys
Babies in 2025
19about 1 in 90,000 boys
Five-year trend
Risingup 46% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 19 boys in the US were named Emilian, making it the 5,044th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. It first appears in the records in 2004.

2025 had the most boys named Emilian of any year since it first appeared, in 2004.

Half of all the boys named Emilian in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2004Busiest: 19 in 20252025
Emilian in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202519#5,044
202415#5,899
202317#5,465
202215#5,870
20218#8,820
20209#8,062
201911#7,168
201815#5,766
201710#7,542
20166#10,739
201513#6,320
201412#6,627
201311#7,021
20126#10,763
20116#10,801
20106#10,759
20090–
20080–
20076#10,915
20069#7,992
20050–
20045#11,348

Names like Emilian

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

Names related to Emilian

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Emilian: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emilian, updated 20 October 2026.