Emelia

Where Emelia comes from

The dictionaries list Emelia as a given name — a female given name from Emilia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Emilia
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #331
    29 babies named Emelia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #614.
  4. 1982
    Emelia Burns born
    Australian actress
  5. 1982
    Emelia Brobbey born
    Ghanaian actress, TV hostess, and film producer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Emilia.
Namesakes
  • Emelia Brobbey · Ghanaian actress, TV hostess, and film producer, born 1982
  • Emelia Burns · Australian actress, born 1982
  • Emelia Arthur · Ghanaian politician, born 1966
  • Emelia Gorecka · British long-distance runner, born 1994
  • Emelia J. Benjamin · epidemiologist, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.