Emilia: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced uh-MEE-lee-uh · 4 syllables

Emilia means “eager, striving”, from Latin.

Learned borrowing from Latin Aemilia, a gens name from aemulus (“rival, or those in the next valley”).

How popular is Emilia?

Emilia was the #45 name in the US in 2025, given to 4,682 babies. It’s rising: up 196% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Emilia in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Emilia are older than 27; most are between 18 and 74. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Emilia have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Emilia means “eager, striving”. It comes from Latin.

Emilia is pronounced uh-MEE-lee-uh.

Emilia was the #45 name in the US in 2025, given to 4,682 babies. It’s rising: up 196% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Emilia are older than 27. Most are between 18 and 74.