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Emilija

#15,601 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Aemilius

Emilija has been given to 294 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #15,601 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Emilija, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emilija: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Aemilius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emilija means

Emilija is a feminine form of Aemilius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Emilija is used in Lithuanian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɛ.ˈmʲɪ.lʲɪ.jɐ/, /ˈě.miː.li.ja/ and /ɛ.ˈmi.li.ja/ for Emilija.

Origin, language, and formation

Emilija is used in Lithuanian and Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aemilius and Emily.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Emilija is pronounced [ɛˈmʲɪlʲɪjɛ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 294 girls were recorded with the name Emilija between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2023; its best national rank was #6,741 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,669 in 2020 to #15,601 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,678 in 2015 to #15,601 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.

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How common is Emilija?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,601
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emilija 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emilija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emilijas were born

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

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
294
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Emilija 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
−6,496
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,932
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,923
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.4%
Peak was 2023 (17)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,741
2023

Spellings of Emilija

Emilija is not the most common spelling — Emilia is, with 57.8% against Emilija's 0.25%.

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 Emilija is used

Across 1910–2025, Emilija was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 345,653 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Emilija has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emilija around the world

Where Emilija 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
    1999–2025
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2021
    #485
    in 2021
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2015
    #426
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2022
    #5,895
    in 2022
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #364
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1958–2013
    #818
    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 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.

Emilija by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,601
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,932
Best rank ever
#6,741
2023
Peak year
2023
17 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
294
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Emilija

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

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Sibling names for Emilija

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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