Emilija
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Emily
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ěmiːlija/(recorded in a dictionary) Croatian · from Wiktionary
Emilija is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 49th most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 372(measured from records)
- LTLithuania≈1 in 470
- FIFinland1 in 77as Emilia
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 Emilija 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- #991 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- 1 in 372 (inferred from the name graph)
165,157 named Emilia, 2026
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Emilia in US United States, MX Mexico, FI Finland and 4 more and אמיליה in LV Latvia.
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)a female given name, equivalent to English Emily
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Emilija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 165,157as Emilia | 1 in 232 | 165K | — | 8 |
| MX Mexico | #304 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 480 | Emilia | 169 |
| FI Finland | #856 | 71,923as Emilia | 1 in 77 | 92K | Emilia | 49 |
| US United States | — | 47,586as Emilia | 1 in 7K | 47K | Emilia | 376 |
| IT Italy | #398 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 250 | Emilia | 151 |
| SE Sweden | #151 | 30,143as Emilia | 1 in 338 | 30K | Emilia | 104 |
| MD Moldova | #267 | 9,652as Emilia | 1 in 349 | 9.7K | Emilia | 20 |
| LV Latvia | — | 5,059 | 1 in 372 | 5.1K | אמיליה | 21 |
| NI Nicaragua | #49 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Emilia | 23 |
165,157 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)Emilija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Emilia Slabunovab. 1958RURussian politician
- Emilija Erčićb. 1962RSSerbian handball player
- Emilija Kokićb. 1968HRCroatian singer
- Emanuelab. 1981BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pop-folk singer
- Emilia Valevab. 1982BGBulgarian folk and pop singer
- Emilija Turejb. 1984RURussian handball player
- Emilija Škarnulytėb. 1987LTLithuanian visual artist and filmmaker (born 1987)
- Emiliya Nikolovab. 1991BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian volleyball player
- Emilija Baranacb. 1994CACanadian actress
- Emilija Senavaityteactress
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)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 446 | #3,002 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 414 | #23,590 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 393 | #668 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 388 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 327 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 112 | #2,662 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 73 | #1,850 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 73 | #1,850 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 44 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #19,937 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2 | #6,430 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- In which country does Emilija have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 165 thousand people named Emilia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Emilija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Emilija is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 372 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Emilija mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Emily Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Emilija?
- In the etymology graph, Emily, Emilia and Emilie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Emilija?
- It depends on the language: in Croatian /ěmiːlija/ (Wiktionary); in Lithuanian /ɛmʲɪlʲɪjɛ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Emilija a male or female name?
- Emilija is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Lithuania (Registrų centras), Slovenia (SURS, 2025), Norway (SSB) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024), among others.
- How common is the name Emilija?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 5,059 people named Emilija, about 1 in 372 residents.
- How common is Emilija compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Emilija is the 49th most common given name of 16,569 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/emilijaThe 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, “Emilija” — the 49th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.