Emile

Where Emile comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Emile.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Emile through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #283
    37 babies named Emile, its best rank.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #476.
  4. 1978
    Emile Heskey born
    English association football player
  5. 1985
    Emile Hirsch born
    American actor
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin of Latin origin, an anglicized spelling of French Émile.
Namesakes
  • Emile Heskey · English association football player, born 1978
  • Emile Hirsch · American actor, born 1985
  • Emile Smith Rowe · English association football player, born 2000
  • Emile Habibi · Palestinian-Arab-Israeli writer and politician, 1922–1996
  • Emile Griffith · American boxer, 1938–2013

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.