Emil

Where Emil comes from

From German Emil, from Latin Aemilius, a Roman family name possibly from aemulus (“rival”). Cognate with French Émile.
— Wiktionary's entry for Emil
  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1854
    Emil von Behring born
    German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #113 among boys — 119 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #90
    145 babies named Emil — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1911
    Emil Cioran born
    Romanian-French philosopher and essayist
  5. 1986
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,199.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Emil von Behring · German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin, 1854–1917
  • Emil Cioran · Romanian-French philosopher and essayist, 1911–1995
  • Emil Theodor Kocher · surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1841–1917
  • Emil Zátopek · Czech long-distance runner, 1922–2000
  • Emil Jannings · German actor, 1884–1950

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.