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Emelia

#601 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Amelia

Emelia has been given to 14,028 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #601 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 701 recorded.

Babies named Emelia, 2025

1 in 6,790

Emelia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emelia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Amelia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emelia means

Emelia is a variant of Amelia.

Origin, language, and formation

Emelia is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amelia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,028 girls were recorded with the name Emelia between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 701 in 2019; its best national rank was #333 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #452 in 2020 to #601 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #591 in 2015 to #601 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Emelia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,790
488 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,290
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#601
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,710 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emelia 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,710 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emelia was born before 2013 — so the typical Emelia is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,053
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (4,988).

Is Emelia 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
−27
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−149
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−10
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.6%
Peak was 2019 (701)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#333
1883

Spellings of Emelia

Emelia is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 31.0% against Emelia's 1.5%.

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 Emelia is used

Across 2016–2025, Emelia was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 662 girls, against 1 in 2,368 across all states with data. It was least common in North Dakota (1 in 5,556).

18151 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 662
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 1,299
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 1,351
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 1,538
  5. 5Rhode Island1 in 1,538
  6. 6Missouri1 in 1,563
  7. 7Oregon1 in 1,587
  8. 8Michigan1 in 1,639

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.

Geographically, Emelia is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 29% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Emelia around the world

Where Emelia 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
    1996–2025
    #596
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2005–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #4,411
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #597
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Emelia

People whose public names include Emelia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Emelia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#601
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 149
Best rank ever
#333
1883
Peak year
2019
701 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,028
Count in 2025
488

Names similar to Emelia

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

EmerieEmeraldEmersynEmelyThaliaAmaliaDahliaEmelynEmersonEmelieOfeliaNoeliaAnaliaEmeryDaliaLiliaEmelineLeliaOraliaAdeliaAureliaRosaliaEmeriAngelia

Names with a curve like Emelia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Emelia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EmmyMiraPhoenixMaryamZariahNylahIvannaGracelynEvelynnRaelynAnnaliseAdelina

Sibling names for Emelia

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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