Emelia is a variant of Amelia, which goes back to Germanic names beginning with ‘amal’ like Amalberta or Amalthea. The word ‘amal’ means ‘vigorous, brave’.
Emelia is a first name for girls.
The name Emelia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Emelia ranks 503. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Emelia. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Emelia.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Emelia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Emelia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Emelia have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Emelia even more than any other time: in 1883, it holds its present record of rank #326 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Emelia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Emelia has never been ranked higher than #326. In 2022, she rivaled the 478 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 594 girls named Emelia were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Emelia were born, there have been 57 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Emelia is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Emelia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Emelia, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Emelia sounds like this: