# Emelia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/emelia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,028 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 14,028 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,112, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 366 | 752 |
| 2012 | 411 | 686 |
| 2013 | 438 | 645 |
| 2014 | 463 | 619 |
| 2015 | 509 | 591 |
| 2016 | 532 | 583 |
| 2017 | 575 | 540 |
| 2018 | 654 | 481 |
| 2019 | 701 | 443 |
| 2020 | 683 | 452 |
| 2021 | 663 | 471 |
| 2022 | 598 | 521 |
| 2023 | 570 | 533 |
| 2024 | 528 | 574 |
| 2025 | 488 | 601 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 224 | 229 |
| 2012 | 314 | 164 |
| 2013 | 283 | 185 |
| 2014 | 270 | 197 |
| 2015 | 275 | 195 |
| 2016 | 234 | 223 |
| 2017 | 172 | 284 |
| 2018 | 190 | 256 |
| 2019 | 157 | 302 |
| 2020 | 134 | 338 |
| 2021 | 142 | 333 |
| 2022 | 118 | 361 |
| 2023 | 85 | 467 |
| 2024 | 76 | 516 |
| 2025 | 65 | 596 |

## People named Emelia

- Emelia Burns, Australian actress
- Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-Mexican rumbera and actress (1929–2015)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.