# Emilija (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/emilija/  
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 | 294 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 294 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 880, 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 | 10 | 10,627 |
| 2012 | 14 | 8,339 |
| 2013 | 12 | 9,197 |
| 2014 | 8 | 12,267 |
| 2015 | 11 | 9,683 |
| 2016 | 13 | 8,543 |
| 2017 | 11 | 9,513 |
| 2018 | 16 | 7,201 |
| 2019 | 12 | 8,744 |
| 2020 | 14 | 7,674 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9,780 |
| 2022 | 11 | 9,238 |
| 2023 | 17 | 6,746 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,110 |
| 2025 | 5 | 15,605 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 59 | 665 |
| 2012 | 76 | 556 |
| 2013 | 81 | 515 |
| 2014 | 81 | 521 |
| 2015 | 69 | 607 |
| 2016 | 54 | 735 |
| 2017 | 60 | 683 |
| 2018 | 45 | 826 |
| 2019 | 48 | 778 |
| 2020 | 35 | 969 |
| 2021 | 17 | 1,692 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,603 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,639 |

## People named Emilija

- Emilija Kokić, Croatian singer
- Emilija Baranac, Canadian actress
- Emilija Podrug, Croatian basketball player (born 1979)
- Emiliya Nikolova, Bulgarian volleyball 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.