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Emili

#4,208 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Emili has been given to 1,923 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #4,208 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 112 recorded.

Babies named Emili, 2025

1 in 97,500

Emili over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emili: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emili means

Emili has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Emili

A separate documented entry treats Emili as a form of Aemilius. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Emili as a variant of Emily. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Emili is used in Catalan and Occitan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emil.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Emili is pronounced [əˈmi.li].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,923 girls were recorded with the name Emili between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 112 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,827 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,017 in 2020 to #4,208 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,431 in 2015 to #4,208 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 Emili?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,208
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emili 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emili. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emilis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emili was born before 2003 — so the typical Emili is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,923
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (856).

Is Emili 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
+382
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,809
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+223
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.4%
Peak was 2006 (112)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,827
2006

Spellings of Emili

Emili is not the most common spelling — Emily is, with 74.1% against Emili's 0.16%.

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 Emili is used

Across 1910–2025, Emili was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 150,082 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in —
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Emili has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emili around the world

Where Emili 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
    2003–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2010–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    2007–2025
    #4,897
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2004
    #2,752
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1997–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Emili by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,208
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,809
Best rank ever
#1,827
2006
Peak year
2006
112 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,923
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Emili

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

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Sibling names for Emili

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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