Emiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- eh-MY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Emiya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Emiya come from?
Modern: spelling of Emiyah, itself a variant of Amiyah, or Emi with the -iyah ending
Meaning borrowed from Emiyah.
Is Emiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Emiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Emiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 51% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Emiya, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had fewer girls named Emiya than any year since 2001.
Half of all the girls named Emiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Emiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,484 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,932 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,815 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,481 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Nicknames for Emiya
- Emi 31 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Emiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah Kaliyah Jaliyah Aaliyah Zaniya Safiya Kamiyah Zariya Zaliyah Aliya Zayla Zariah
Names related to Emiya
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
Sources
Figures from 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, “Emiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emiya, updated 20 October 2026.