Emīls

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vīrieša vārds

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Emīls is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 355(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 22K
  • SESweden1 in 232K

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

5,305 people

Sources
33 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 355 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Emils in LV Latvia, SE Sweden, DK Denmark.

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)

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Emīls 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.

Where Emīls is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#9945,3051 in 3555.3KEmils27
SE Sweden—441 in 232K44Emils4
DK Denmark—231 in 255K23Emils9
IS Iceland—161 in 22K16—2
PL Poland—131 in 2.9M13—1

5,305 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling emīls. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Latvia, United States, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Emils, Emîls

  • Latvian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United Kingdom, United States, Russia

    Languages: Latvian, Estonian, Russian

    Also written Emils, Эмилс, Емільс, Емилс

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia

    Also written Emils

  • Serbian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Languages: Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Emils

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ėmils, Emils

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Emils

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Emils

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Emils

13 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Emīls Dārziņš, b. 1875Emīls Melderis, b. 1889Emīls Mačs, b. 1892Emīls Sudmalis, b. 1897Emīls Skujenieks, b. 1903Emīls Urbāns, b. 1904Emīls Dēliņš, b. 1921Emīls Liepiņš, b. 1992Emīls Cipulis, b. 1995Emīls Kaupers, b. 1995

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(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Emīls
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—5.3K#95
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—5.3K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20269#11,261
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—7#13,154

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Emīls mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Is Emīls a male or female name?
Emīls is a male 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 are other forms of the name Emīls?
In the etymology graph, Emilio, Emil and Emiel are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Emīls have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Emīls, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emils.
Where is Emīls most common?
Emīls is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 355 people carrying it.
How common is the name Emīls?
In Latvia, the national register counted 5,305 people named Emīls, about 1 in 355 residents.
How common is Emīls compared with other names?
In Latvia, Emīls is the 994th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.

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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, “Emīls” — the 994th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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