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Emilian

#5,085 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly rival, through Aemiliānus

Emilian has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #5,085 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Emilian, 2025

1 in 174,000

Emilian over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emilian: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly rival, through Aemiliānus

Latin

What Emilian means

Emilian belongs to the name family reached through Emilian → Aemiliānus. Its meaning is “rival”.

Origin, language, and formation

Emilian is used in English, Occitan and Polish. Its origins include Latin.

Emilian comes through Latin Aemiliānus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aemiliānus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Emilian is pronounced /ɛˈmi.ljan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 199 boys were recorded with the name Emilian between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,085 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,257 in 2020 to #5,085 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,432 in 2015 to #5,085 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 Emilian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,085
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emilian sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emilian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emilians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emilian was born before 2018 — so the typical Emilian is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
199
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Choose a decade

2010s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Emilian 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
+901
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,172
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,347
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.46×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (19)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,085
2025

Spellings of Emilian

Emilian is not the most common spelling — Emilio is, with 40.4% against Emilian's 0.15%.

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.

Emilian around the world

Where Emilian 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
    2009–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1992–2025
    #3,775
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #189
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Emilian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,085
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,172
Best rank ever
#5,085
2025
Peak year
2025
19 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
199
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Emilian

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

EmileoEmillioDaemianGiulianTayvianAzarianKassianEmiloKyllianEmigdioEmillianoKaspianRhydianZadrianCyprianElysianAydrianAmarianSufianXadrianXzavianAarianKadrianTilian

Sibling names for Emilian

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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