Emmilia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- e-MEE-lee-a
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Emmilia is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “rival”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Emmilia 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.
Meaning borrowed from Emilia. More on Wiktionary.
Is Emmilia a girl's or a boy's name?
Emmilia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Emmilia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Emmilia, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Emmilia in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 5,238 girls in the US were given Emmilia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #47, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.
Emmilia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
Nicknames for Emmilia
Names like Emmilia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aurelia, Amelia, Cataleya, Eliora, Luna, Alivia, Elianna, Everly, Olivia, Antonella, Magnolia, Rosalia
Other spellings of Emmilia
Names related to Emmilia
More Latin names
Oliver, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Emily, Florence, Mabel, Nora, Rosie, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian, Clara, Anthony, Austin
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, “Emmilia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emmilia, updated 20 October 2026.