Emelia

What Emelia means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Emelia yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #591 in 2015 to #601 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Emelia?

US: Steady: #591 in 2015, #601 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #195 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 683 girls got the name (#452 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,294 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,897 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (2.04 per 1,000 girls), NH (1.32 per 1,000 girls), AR (1.04 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Emelia is #601 in the US and #596 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Emelia were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Amelia12,699 US · 2,153 E&W
• Emilia4,677 US · 832 E&W
• Amelie329 US · 398 E&W
• Amalia530 US · 80 E&W
• Emilie170 US · 65 E&W
• Amilia158 US · 10 E&W
• Ameliah40 US · 5 E&W
• Emmelia37 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Emelia

Girls

• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Penelope#22possibly “duck”^*
• Mila#43Editor’s note Up from #53 in 2015 to #43 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 340 US girls in the 2025 records
• Luna#27“the moon”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025

For a brother

• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Emelia’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.