# Emilia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/emilia/  
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 | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 69,121 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 45 / 69,076 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 22,999, 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 | 972 | 325 |
| 2012 | 1,213 | 268 |
| 2013 | 1,564 | 205 |
| 2014 | 2,004 | 164 |
| 2015 | 2,225 | 145 |
| 2016 | 3,033 | 103 |
| 2017 | 3,596 | 77 |
| 2018 | 4,040 | 58 |
| 2019 | 4,774 | 44 |
| 2020 | 4,786 | 41 |
| 2021 | 4,854 | 40 |
| 2022 | 4,685 | 44 |
| 2023 | 4,687 | 42 |
| 2024 | 4,649 | 43 |
| 2025 | 4,677 | 45 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | 12,723 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,052 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,606 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,504 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,038 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,199 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,581 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,007 | 61 |
| 2012 | 1,050 | 56 |
| 2013 | 961 | 64 |
| 2014 | 1,082 | 56 |
| 2015 | 1,243 | 45 |
| 2016 | 1,356 | 41 |
| 2017 | 1,380 | 36 |
| 2018 | 1,398 | 34 |
| 2019 | 1,473 | 32 |
| 2020 | 1,353 | 31 |
| 2021 | 1,353 | 32 |
| 2022 | 1,128 | 37 |
| 2023 | 1,017 | 45 |
| 2024 | 961 | 45 |
| 2025 | 832 | 51 |

## People named Emilia

- Emilia Clarke, British actress (born 1986)
- Emilia Fox, British actress and presenter (born 1974)
- Emilia Jones, British actress
- Emilia Mernes, Argentine singer (born 1996)
- Emilia Schüle, German actress of Russian-German descent  (born 1992)
- Emilia Lanier, English poet
- Emilia Attías, Argentine actress
- Emilia, Lady Dilke, British author, art historian, feminist and trade unionist
- Emilia McCarthy, Canadian actress and dancer
- Countess Emilia Antwerpiana of Nassau, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg (1581-1651)
- Countess Emilia of Nassau, German noblewoman (1569-1629)
- Emilia Pikkarainen, Finnish swimmer

## 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.