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Emelie

#5,133 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Aemilius

Emelie has been given to 2,612 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,133 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Emelie, 2025

1 in 133,000

Emelie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emelie: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Aemilius

French and Latin

What Emelie means

Emelie is a feminine form of Aemilius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Emelie is used in Swedish.

Origin, language, and formation

Emelie is used in German and Swedish. Its origins include French and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aemilius, Emilie and Emilia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,612 girls were recorded with the name Emelie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 2003; its best national rank was #556 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,239 in 2020 to #5,133 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,867 in 2015 to #5,133 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 Emelie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,133
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emelie 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emelie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emelies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emelie was born before 1999 — so the typical Emelie is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,910
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (585).

Is Emelie 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
−636
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,894
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,266
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.9%
Peak was 2003 (76)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#556
1880

Spellings of Emelie

Emelie is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 43.6% against Emelie's 0.40%.

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 Emelie is used

Across 1910–2025, Emelie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 93,276 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 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. Emelie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emelie around the world

Where Emelie 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2013–2019
    #376
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2016
    #440
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2007–2016
    #868
    in 2016
  • France
    1900–2024
    #7,096
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #454
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2015
    #2,823
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1996–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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 Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, 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 Emelie

People whose public names include Emelie, 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.

Emelie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Emelie. Linked forms have their own page here.

Emiliya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Emelie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,133
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,894
Best rank ever
#556
1880
Peak year
2003
76 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,612
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Emelie

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

EmelynEmeriEmerieEmelineEmelinAdalieEmeliMellieBrylieMallieVallieBaylieEmersenEmeliaBailieCaylieEmerlieHarlieKeelieMarlieAmalieEmellyEmeldaEmerly

Names with a curve like Emelie

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

ArlynRosyLilliaAllenaAudrieMadelyneMahalaEllenaDelilaNaomieMahaliaMadelin

Sibling names for Emelie

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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