Emils
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emils is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- LVLatvia1 in 355(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 22K
- SESweden1 in 232K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 355 (inferred from the name graph)
5,305 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emils 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #141 | 5,305 | 1 in 355 | 5.3K | Emils | 64 |
| SE Sweden | — | 44 | 1 in 232K | 44 | Emils | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | listed | Emils | 24 |
| US United States | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Emils | 31 |
| DK Denmark | — | 23 | 1 in 255K | 23 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 16 | 1 in 22K | 16 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | listed | Emils | 5 |
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); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; 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); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emīls Dārziņšb. 1875LVLatvian composer (1875–1910)
- Emīls Melderisb. 1889LVLatvian sculptor
- Emīls Mačsb. 1892LVLatvian stage actor, director, drama teacher and soldier (1892-1958)
- Emīls Sudmalisb. 1897LVLatvian politician (1897-1964)
- Emīls Skujenieksb. 1903LVLatvian writer
- Emīls Urbānsb. 1904LVLatvian footballer
- Emīls Dēliņšb. 1921LVLatvian journalist and diplomat (1921-2004)
- Emīls Liepiņšb. 1992LVLatvian cyclist
- Emīls Cipulisb. 1995LVLatvian bobsledder
- Emīls Kaupersb. 1995LVLatvian musician
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 16 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 117 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 117 | #1,113 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #14,787 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 28 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 28 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 24 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23 | #3,988 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 19 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Emils mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Emils a male or female name?
- Emils 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.
- In which country does Emils have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Emils, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emils.
- Where is Emils most common?
- Emils is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 355 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Emils?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 5,305 people named Emils, about 1 in 355 residents.
- How common is Emils compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Emils is the 141st most common given name of 11,601 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/emilsThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Emils” — the 141st most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.