# Emile (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/emile/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,289 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,641 / 648 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 898, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 13 | 7,368 |
| 2000 | 9 | 10,148 |
| 2001 | 12 | 8,354 |
| 2002 | 15 | 7,169 |
| 2003 | 8 | 11,639 |
| 2004 | 14 | 7,959 |
| 2005 | 9 | 11,177 |
| 2006 | 12 | 9,479 |
| 2007 | 15 | 8,217 |
| 2008 | 10 | 11,048 |
| 2009 | 6 | 15,844 |
| 2012 | 7 | 13,932 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,383 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,185 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,338 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 35 | 3,190 |
| 2012 | 40 | 2,918 |
| 2013 | 46 | 2,601 |
| 2014 | 52 | 2,438 |
| 2015 | 55 | 2,368 |
| 2016 | 60 | 2,241 |
| 2017 | 66 | 2,098 |
| 2018 | 60 | 2,273 |
| 2019 | 65 | 2,175 |
| 2020 | 71 | 2,008 |
| 2021 | 83 | 1,857 |
| 2022 | 72 | 2,086 |
| 2023 | 66 | 2,178 |
| 2024 | 83 | 1,907 |
| 2025 | 70 | 2,098 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 6 | 3,397 |
| 2010 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2011 | 11 | 2,275 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,717 |
| 2013 | 13 | 2,062 |
| 2014 | 12 | 2,203 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,783 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,757 |
| 2017 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 12 | 2,170 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 1,158 |
| 2012 | 34 | 885 |
| 2013 | 33 | 882 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,279 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,498 |
| 2017 | 19 | 1,339 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1,132 |
| 2019 | 23 | 1,152 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,273 |
| 2021 | 30 | 985 |
| 2022 | 25 | 1,104 |
| 2023 | 27 | 1,071 |
| 2024 | 40 | 814 |
| 2025 | 31 | 976 |

## People named Emile

- Émile Zola, French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
- Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (1858–1917)
- Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (1855-1916)
- Émile Loubet, 8th president of France (1838–1929)
- Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (1871-1956)
- Emile Heskey, English association football player
- Émile Bernard, French painter (1868-1941)
- Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, French physicist (1799-1864)
- Émile Lahoud, 11th President of Lebanon
- Emile Hirsch, American actor (born 1985)
- Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (1856-1941)
- Emile Smith Rowe, English association football player

## 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.