Emilia

Where Emilia comes from

The dictionaries list Emilia as a given name — a female given name from Latin, a rare Latinized variant of Emily — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1806
    Emilia Plater born
    Polish noblewoman
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1986
    Emilia Clarke born
    British actress
  4. 2021
    Peak, #40
    4,854 babies named Emilia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, a rare Latinized variant of Emily.
Namesakes
  • Emilia Clarke · British actress, born 1986
  • Emilia Plater · Polish noblewoman, 1806–1831
  • Emilia Fox · British actress and presenter, born 1974
  • Emilia Pardo Bazán · Spanish author, editor, 1851–1921
  • Emilia Jones · British actress, born 2002

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.