Emily

Where Emily comes from

English form of Latin Aemilia, a gens name from aemulus (“rival, emulator”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Emily
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1818
    Emily Brontë born
    English novelist and poet
  2. 1830
    Emily Dickinson born
    American poet
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #100 among girls — 210 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1999
    Peak, #1
    26,542 babies named Emily — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #7.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Emily Dickinson · American poet, 1830–1886
  • Emily Brontë · English novelist and poet, 1818–1848
  • Emily Blunt · British actress, born 1983
  • Emily Greene Balch · American economist and writer, 1867–1961
  • Emily Watson · English actress, born 1967

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.