The first name Emily means ‘the ambitious’ or also ‘the eager’. This meaning is derived from the Latin word ‘aemulus’, which means ‘rival, competitor’.
Emily is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
In the US, Emily is one of the most popular names ever. In the SmartGenius ranking recently, it has regularly been among the top 10 most common girls names and is currently in place 9. In fact, one out auf 300 girls under the age of 10 is named Emily. In total, there are currently 855,793 people – children, adults and seniors – named Emily living in the United States, which is approximately 0.26 % of the entire population.
The first name Emily means ‘the ambitious’ or also ‘the eager’. This meaning is derived from the Latin word ‘aemulus’, which means ‘rival, competitor’.
Who is ambitious? Ambitious people strive particularly hard for success in life. They are considered to be particularly hardworking.
Emily Bear (*2001)
The young U.S. pianist, composer, songwriter and singer performed as a child prodigy on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2007 and under George W. Bush at the White House in 2008. She has already received several Young Composer Jazz Awards for her music.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Her poems were not published until four years after her death and were considered avant-garde - she is one of the most important American poets.
Emily Nasrallah (1931 - 2018))
A Lebanese writer, her works focus on the Lebanese Civil War and women's emancipation. In 2017, she was awarded the Goethe Medal, and in February 2018, she received the Cedar Medal of Honor, Commander Rank from the President of Lebanon.
Emily Carr (1871 - 1945)
Canadian painter and writer, she was influenced by the Native American cultures of Canada and was closely associated with the 'Group of Seven', a landscape painters association of Canada - she was considered the 'Mother of Modern Art'.
Emily the Strange
The character represents a 13-year-old gothic girl with pessimistic and maladjusted worldview. Especially in the gloomy and rockabilly scene she is a popular character.
Spirit of Ecstasy
is the name given to the radiator mascot that has adorned Rolls-Royce's water cooler cap since 1911. In Germany, it is also commonly called 'Emily'.
When you hear the name Emily, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Emily? Are you also called Emily? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
In the US state of Wisconsin there is a lake called Lake Emily.
named Emily in the state of Minnesota.
In Antarctica, a rocky peak bears the name Emily - it was named after the explorer's wife, Emily Dawson-Lambton Shackleton.
In what is now Kawartha Lakes, Ontario was once home to the Township of Emily. At the same place you can now find Emily Provincial Park.
Emily is one of the most common names in the U.S. – in all states combined, 855,451 women would currently turn around if you called out EMILY really loud. Across all states and age groups, this lands Emily on position 18 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top female names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above. With so many women named Emily, it’s no surprise that the name is widely used in every single state in the U.S., but would you have guessed that it’s especially popular in Nevada? Here, 1,00% of all female residents bear the name Emily – that is a total of 4,388 women with this popular name and no other state has as many women named Emily relative to its population. But that’s not all the popularity: in Nevada Emily belongs to the top 10 of all womens names – the 4,388 elevate their name up to place #4 in the SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names for Nevada.
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 five letters, the name Emily is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Emily 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 Emily, you can simply say:
Elephant
Mouse
Igloo
Lion
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Emily
Emily
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
M
I
L
Y
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
Y
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. Emily sounds like this:
