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Aemilia

#11,958 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Aemilius

Aemilia has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #11,958 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Aemilia, 2025

1 in 474,000

Aemilia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aemilia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Aemilius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aemilia means

Aemilia is a feminine form of Aemilius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Aemilia is used in Ancient Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ae̯.ˈmi.li.a/ for Aemilia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aemilius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 190 girls were recorded with the name Aemilia between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2019; its best national rank was #6,176 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,261 in 2020 to #11,958 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,012 in 2015 to #11,958 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Aemilia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,958
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aemilia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aemilia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aemilias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aemilia was born before 2016 — so the typical Aemilia is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
190
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Aemilia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+229
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,697
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,946
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.8%
Peak was 2019 (19)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,176
2019

Spellings of Aemilia

Aemilia is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 53.2% against Aemilia's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aemilia is used

Across 1910–2025, Aemilia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aemilia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aemilia around the world

Where Aemilia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2021
    #4,634
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Aemilia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,958
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,697
Best rank ever
#6,176
2019
Peak year
2019
19 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
190
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Aemilia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AemeliaVitaliaLuciliaLuceliaAdahliaOtilliaEmmiliaAnahliaRozaliaAzaeliaCataliaAmeiliaVasiliaKamiliaNoheliaKataliaAzayliaSiciliaEmilliaVidaliaGhaliaKameliaAnajuliaZaylia

Sibling names for Aemilia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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