Emily
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Feminine form of Roman clan name Aemilius; later influenced by Amelia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛməʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Emily is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In France it is the 56th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 440(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 800
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 906
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Emily itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #256 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 626 (measured from records)
- 1 in 292 (inferred from the name graph)
755,529 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
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 Emilie in FR France, BR Brazil, SE Sweden and 1 more.
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)
Feminine form of Roman clan name Aemilius; later influenced by Amelia. Imported from Britain.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emily 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 | #145 | 755,529 | 1 in 440 | 755K | Emily | 626 |
| FR France | #56 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 411 | 194K | Emilie | 404 |
| BR Brazil | — | 140,315 | 1 in 1.5K | 140K | Emilie | 72 |
| PH Philippines | #166 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 906 | — | Emily | 137 |
| GB United Kingdom | #135 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 800 | 1.2K | Emily | 351 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 57,858 | 1 in 292 | 58K | Emily | 52 |
| SE Sweden | #305 | 29,150as Emelie | 1 in 350 | 29K | Emilie | 102 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 27,564as Emilie | 1 in 388 | 28K | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | #167 | 13,411as Emilie | 1 in 438 | 13K | Emilie | 143 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Emily 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 a medieval form of the Latin name Aemilia, the feminine version of the old Roman family name Aemilius (probably from aemulus ‘rival’). It was not common in the Middle Ages, but was revived in the roth century and is very popular today. Its best-known 19th century bearer was probably the novelist and poet Emily Bronté (1818-48). EMILY.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Emily och Emilie är former bildade till Æmilia (se → Emil) liksom till → Emelie. Namnen blandas ofta samman. Emily är en engelsk form, populär sedan 1800-talet, medan Emilie är en fransk. En känd svensk namnbärare är författaren Emilie FlygareCarlén (1807–92). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 19 maj.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, Emily Dickinson, ameri kanische Lyrikerin
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
English: from a medieval form of the Latin name Aemilia , the feminine version of the old Roman family name Aemilius (probably from aemulus rival). It was not common in the Middle Ages, and when it was revived in the 19th century there was much confusion between the originally distinct AMELIA and the Latinate form of this name, Emilia . Cognates: French: Émilie. German: Emilie .
as a word
In Swedish, a female given name from from English [in turn from French Amélie, in turn from Latin Aemilia], variant of Emelie
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emily Brontëb. 1818GBEnglish novelist and poet (1818–1848)
- Emily Dickinsonb. 1830USAmerican poet (1830-1886)
- Emily Greene Balchb. 1867USAmerican economist and writer
- Peggy Ashcroftb. 1907GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (1907-1991)
- Emily Watsonb. 1967GBEnglish actress (born 1967)
- Emily Mortimerb. 1971GBBritish actress
- Emily Roseb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Emily Bluntb. 1983GBBritish actress (born 1983)
- Emily VanCampb. 1986CACanadian actress
- Emma Stoneb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and producer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 145 sources across 80 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 755K | #44 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 140K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 139K | #241 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 62K | #666 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 58K | #14 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 14K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 5.6K | #447 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5.5K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3.8K | #165 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.8K | #722 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2.4K | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.6K | #395 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Emily a male or female name?
- Emily 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.
- Where does the name Emily come from?
- Feminine form of Roman clan name Aemilius; later influenced by Amelia. Imported from Britain. Recorded by Irish first names.
- In which country does Emily have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 756 thousand people named Emily, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emily.
- Where is Emily most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Emily is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 292 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Emily?
- In the etymology graph, Emilia, Emilie and Millie are forms of the same name in other languages; Emmy and Emmie are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Emily?
- In the United States, the national register counted 755,529 people named Emily in 2020, about 1 in 440 residents.
- How common is Emily compared with other names?
- In the United States, Emily is the 145th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Emily mean?
- Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Roman clan name Aemilius; later influenced by Amelia.
- How do you pronounce Emily?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛməʎi/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emilyThe 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, “Emily” — the 145th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.