Emilia
Emilia reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 40, and has been recorded 69,121 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 45th. About 65,000 Emilias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Emilia boys named Emilia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 69,121
- Estimated living today
- 65,000
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 40th
- Rank in 2025
- 45th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 69,076 / 45
How old the living Emilias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 69,121 babies given the name since 1880, about 65,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 54,000 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Emilias
- Emilia Clarke (born 1986)English actress, model and writer
- Emilia Plater (1806–1831)Polish noblewoman
- Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921)Spanish author, editor
- Emilia Fox (born 1974)British actress and presenter
- Emilia Jones (born 2002)British actress
- Emilia Rydberg (born 1978)Swedish female singer and songwriter
- Emilia Mernes (born 1996)Argentine singer
- Emilia Schüle (born 1992)German actress
People named Emilia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Emilia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Emilia is most concentrated in Nevada (2.2×), Arizona (1.9×), New Mexico (1.7×), Texas (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular girls’ names the year Emilia peaked:
Emilia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland girls | Emilia | 90,798 birth registrations | 14th |
| England and Wales girls | Emilia | 22,999 | 32nd |
| Sweden girls | Emilia | 11,709 | 15th |
| France girls | Emilia +1 spelling | 10,400 | 227th |
| Austria girls | Emilia | 9,740 | 3rd |
| Italy girls | Emilia | 5,660 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Emilia +1 spelling | 4,540 | 4th |
| Belgium girls | Emilia +2 spellings | 2,220 | 40th |
| Norway girls | Emilia | 2,194 | 55th |
| Ireland girls | Emilia +1 spelling | 1,639 | 57th |
| Scotland girls | Emilia | 1,367 | 43rd |
| New Zealand girls | Emilia | 528 | 54th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Emilia | 405 | 63rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Emilia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Emilia | 4,133 | 0.332% | 2nd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Emília | 25 | 0.002% | 849th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Emilia | 324 | 0.074% | 50th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Emília | 4 | 0.001% | 786th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Emilia | 42 | 0.064% | 31st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Emilia | 12 | 0.323% | 2nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Emilia is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.38% of children were given it – 201 of them.
Emilia: rank by region
In 2025, Emilia was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Emilia | 37 | 104 |
| Wallonia | Emilia | 76 | 33 |
| Brussels | Emilia | 23 | 26 |
In 2015, Emilia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Emilia | 9 | 2 |
In 2025, Emilia was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Emilia | 7 | 217 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Emilia | 25 | 91 |
| Lubelskie | Emilia | 18 | 102 |
| Lubuskie | Emilia | 11 | 53 |
| Łódzkie | Emilia | 27 | 86 |
| Małopolskie | Emilia | 6 | 412 |
| Mazowieckie | Emilia | 19 | 322 |
| Opolskie | Emilia | 5 | 77 |
| Podkarpackie | Emilia | 6 | 202 |
| Podlaskie | Emilia | 25 | 52 |
| Pomorskie | Emilia | 17 | 146 |
| Śląskie | Emilia | 3 | 399 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Emilia | 28 | 36 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Emilia | 32 | 45 |
| Wielkopolskie | Emilia | 18 | 216 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Emilia | 11 | 97 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Emilia appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (23rd), Province of East Flanders (24th), Province of Antwerp (32nd), Province of Limburg (41st), Province of West Flanders (44th), Province of Walloon Brabant (50th), Province of Liège (61st), Province of Flemish Brabant (73rd) and Province of Hainaut (117th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Emilia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 1,676 | 1st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Emilia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Emilia +1 spelling | 13,071 | 72,262 |
| the Netherlands girls | Emilia | 1,017 | 2,552 |
| the Netherlands boys | Emilia | — | 67 |
| Finland boys | Emilia | — | 6 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 72,262 who carry it, 13,071 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Emilia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 41,245 women called Emilia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cáceres | Emilia | 670 | 3.419 | 68 |
| Badajoz | Emilia | 1,131 | 3.356 | 70 |
| Ourense | Emilia | 516 | 3.253 | 66 |
| Albacete | Emilia | 622 | 3.196 | 71 |
| Cuenca | Emilia | 306 | 3.095 | 72 |
| Zamora | Emilia | 238 | 2.847 | 74 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Emilia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.