Emmelia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- e-MEE-lee-a
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #3,902 for girls
Emmelia is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “rival”. In 2025 it ranked 3,902nd for girls in the US (37 babies).
What does Emmelia mean?
Latin: spelling of Emelia, itself a variant of Emilia, from the Roman family name Aemilius
“rival”
Variant of Emilia; often confused with Amelia, which is a separate name of Germanic origin.
Meaning borrowed from Emelia. More on Wiktionary.
Is Emmelia a girl's or a boy's name?
Emmelia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 37 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Emmelia in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 8 girls.
Emmelia in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 1 | #7,326 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 1 | #7,682 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
How popular is Emmelia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,902nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 37 about 1 in 43,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 6% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 37 girls in the US were named Emmelia, making it the 3,902nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had the most girls named Emmelia of any year since it first appeared, in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Emmelia in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 5,238 girls in the US were given Emmelia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #47, up from #3,902 for this spelling alone.
Emmelia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,902 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,293 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,675 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,579 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,241 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,451 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,161 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,920 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,156 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,852 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,890 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,707 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,071 |
| 2010 | 22 | #5,975 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,889 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
Nicknames for Emmelia
Names like Emmelia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Emilia, Olivia, Arabella, Amelia, Eliana, Aurelia, Isabella, Isla, Luna, Aria, Freya, Elodie
Other spellings of Emmelia
Names related to Emmelia
More Latin names
Oliver, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Emily, Florence, Mabel, Nora, Rosie, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian, Clara, Anthony, Austin
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, “Emmelia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emmelia, updated 20 October 2026.