Emelia

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Emelia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name124 records spelled Emelia15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Эмелия, Емелия, Емелія, Emeliya, Emeliia

• Bangla given name88 records spelled Emelia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Philippines, India

  Also written এমেলিয়া

• Georgian given name87 records spelled Emelia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Georgia, Ghana

  Also written Ემელია

• Croatian given name77 records spelled Emelia7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Емелиа

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Emelia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, Del griego emmeleia: 'armonía, afinación del canto'

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Pequeño fuego

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Emelia Christine Schaubb. 1891USAmerican lawyer
• Ella Odstedtb. 1892SEnot in their usual nameSwedish ethnologist
• bonifacios o líneas Mario Moreno cantinfalesb. 1929CUnot in their usual nameCuban-Mexican rumbera and actress (1929–2015)
• Em Ruscianob. 1979AUnot in their usual nameAustralian singer
• Emelia Burnsb. 1982AUAustralian actress
• Emelia Brobbeyb. 1982GHGhanaian actress, TV hostess, and film producer
• Emelia Goreckab. 1994GBBritish long-distance runner
• Emelia Hanssonb. 1994SESwedish actor
• Emelia J. Benjaminb. 2000USepidemiologist
• Emelia HartfordUSRace car driver and builder

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 474 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Emelia?

We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Emelia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Emelia have the most bearers?

Emelia is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled emelia.

Where is Emelia most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Emelia is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.

How common is Emelia compared with other names?

In Mexico, Emelia is the 843rd most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.

Is Emelia a male or female name?

Emelia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Emelia mean?

Recorded meaning: variant of Amelia or Emilia; meaning uncertain