Emylia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- eh-MEE-lee-uh
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Emylia is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “rival, eager”. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
What does Emylia mean?
Latin: variant of Emilia, from the Roman family name Aemilius
“rival, eager”
Is Emylia a girl's or a boy's name?
Emylia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Emylia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,916th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20 about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 39% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Emylia, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Emylia in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Emylia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,908 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Nicknames for Emylia
- Emmy 132 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Emylia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Emilia, Alivia, Olivia, Elianna, Amelia, Aurelia, Luna, Camila, Eliana, Antonella, Eliora, Arabella
Names related to Emylia
Emily, Emelia, Emmelia, Amylia, Emila, Emilya, Emalia, Emylee
More Latin names
Oliver, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Florence, Mabel, Nora, Rosie, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian, Clara, Anthony, Austin, Felix
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, “Emylia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emylia, updated 20 October 2026.