The given name Emilia means ‘the ambitious’ or also ‘the eager’. This meaning is derived from the Latin word ‘aemulus’, which means ‘rival, competitor’.
Emilia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The first name Emilia is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #77 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Emilia, accounting for approximately 0.20 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 50,740 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Emilia. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The given name Emilia means ‘the ambitious’ or also ‘the eager’. This meaning is derived from the Latin word ‘aemulus’, which means ‘rival, competitor’.
What does 'ambitious' mean? The word 'ambitious' is used to describe a person who is driven by a strong desire to achieve their goals and is willing to work hard and make sacrifices in order to do so.
Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke, MBE (*1986)
The British actress became famous for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series »Game of Thrones« (2011-2019). She received four Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for it.
Emilia Galotti
Emilia Galotti is a bourgeois tragedy play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. In it, he adapted the material from the legend of the Roman Verginia, although he made significant changes at key points.
When you hear the name Emilia, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Emilia? Are you also called Emilia? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
There is a village in central Poland that is called »Emilia«. It's in the administrative district of Gmina Zgierz.
is the name of a historical region in northern Italy.
The name »Emilia« was given to eight tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few girls' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 432 girls' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Emilia is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Emilia has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2021, the name even made it to rank #38 of the most popular girls' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Emilia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 4,664 girls were born and given the name Emilia by their parents. That puts Emilia at #42 on our list of most popular girls' names. It was much less popular in 1972 - only 54 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter and it ranked 1,551 on the popularity scale of all girls' names.
The name Emilia may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Emilia is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,269 women in Nevada is called Emilia. In total, that’s 352 women who feel addressed when the name Emilia is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #317 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Emilia as the answer a total of 50,740 times. This places Emilia at #509 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Emilia as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 Emilia 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 Emilia 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 Emilia, you can simply say:
Elephant
Mouse
Igloo
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Emilia
Emilia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
M
I
L
I
A
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.
E
M
I
L
I
A
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. Emilia sounds like this:
