Émily
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Émily is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In New Caledonia it is the 28th most common given name. Recorded meaning: English form of Latin Aemilia, a gens name from aemulus (“rival, or those in the next valley”).
- USUnited States1 in 440(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 292
- BRBrazil1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- 1 in 292 (inferred from the name graph)
755,529 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Emily in US United States, NC New Caledonia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English form of Latin Aemilia, a gens name from aemulus (“rival, or those in the next valley”).
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Émily counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 755,529 | 1 in 440 | 755K | Emily | 201 |
| BR Brazil | — | 140,315 | 1 in 1.5K | 140K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | 57,858 | 1 in 292 | 58K | — | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 3,840 | 1 in 1.5K | 3.8K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,803 | 1 in 2.7K | 3.8K | — | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 3,112 | 1 in 1.6K | 3.1K | — | — |
| NC New Caledonia | #28 | — | — | — | Emily | 9 |
755,529 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Émily mean, and where does it come from?
- English form of Latin Aemilia, a gens name from aemulus (“rival, or those in the next valley”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Émily a male or female name?
- Émily 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.
- In which country does Émily have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 756 thousand people named Émily, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emily.
- Where is Émily most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Émily is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 292 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Émily?
- In the United States, the national register counted 755,529 people named Émily in 2020, about 1 in 440 residents.
- How common is Émily compared with other names?
- In New Caledonia, Émily is the 28th most common given name of 870 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9milyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Émily” — the 28th most common given name in New Caledonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.