Emela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Emela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 50K
- SISlovenia1 in 75K
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.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emela 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Emela | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Emela | 11 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | 61 | 1 in 50K | 61 | Emela | 7 |
| PH Philippines | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Emela | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | 28 | 1 in 75K | 32 | — | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 233K | 53 | — | — |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 929K | — | Emela | 4 |
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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028). 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)
Emela is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Synonym of Mao (“Sino-Tibetan language”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sla-pro, mistletoe
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.
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 61 | #3,803 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 53 | #4,197 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 32 | #2,822 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 28 | #1,522 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 26 | #1,574 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 25 | #1,583 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 22 | #1,652 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 18 | #1,818 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 17 | #1,837 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 16 | #1,879 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 11 | #2,276 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 10 | #2,379 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Emela?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Emela a male or female name?
- Emela 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 Emela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 399 people named Emela in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emela.
- How common is the name Emela?
- In Albania, the national register counted 61 people named Emela, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Emela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emelaThe 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, “Emela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.