Emilie

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Emily in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 14 more, Emilia in FI Finland, ES Spain and אמילי in IL Israel.

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 15 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◐

Emilie is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish given name145K records spelled Emilie191 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Czechia

  Languages: Polish, Bulgarian, Russian

  Also written Emilia, Эмилия, Емилия, Emiliya, Емілія

• a separate given name6.7K records spelled Emilie3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Switzerland

  Also written Émilie, Emílie

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name1.4K records spelled Emilie2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Émilie

• a separate given name1.4K records spelled Emilie3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Canada

  Also written Émilie, Emílìe

• Swahili given name1.3K records spelled Emilie7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, Philippines, United Kingdom

  Languages: Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Southern Sotho

  Also written Émilie, Emiliè

• Turkish given name921 records spelled Emilie5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Belgium, Switzerland

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Émilie, Emilié

• Polish given name880 records spelled Emilie43 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, Croatia

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

  Also written Emily, Emili, Емили, Émilie, Êmily

• Romanian given name403 records spelled Emilie2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Moldova, Spain, Philippines

  Also written Émilie

54 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●

Emilie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• From Latin. See Emily in main _ dictionary. Masculine form: Emile.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In French, Du latin Aemilius, « rival »; fête de sainte Émilie le 24 août.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In French, Féminin d’Émile, du latin aemulus « émule ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In German, a female given name, equivalent to English Emily

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

• Alice Hoschedéb. 1844FRnot in their usual nameFrench artists' model (1844-1911)
• Emilie Flögeb. 1874ATAustrian designer and model (1874–1952)
• Madame Grèsb. 1903FRnot in their usual nameFrench grand couturier (1903–1993)
• Emilie Schindlerb. 1907DESudetenland-German who helped save lives during the Holocaust, wife of Oskar Schindler (1907-2001)
• Valérie Pécresseb. 1967FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (born 1967)
• Mika Brzezinskib. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican television host
• Émilie Simonb. 1978FRFrench singer, songwriter and composer
• Emilie de Ravinb. 1981AUAustralian actress (born 1981)
• Émilie Dequenneb. 1981BEBelgian actress (1981–2025)
• Emilie Ullerupb. 1984DKDanish actress

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 · 1,307 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Emilie?

We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Emilie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Emilie have the most bearers?

We estimate about 755 thousand people bear Emilie in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled emily.

Where is Emilie most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Emilie is densest in Finland — about 1 in 77 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Emilie compared with other names?

In the United States, Emilie is the 150th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Emilie a male or female name?

Emilie 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 Emilie mean?

Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Émile, from Latin Aemilius, possibly 'rival'.