Meaning and history
Emília is the feminine form of Aemilius, related to Emily. The name was used by Boccaccio for the love interest in his 14th-century epic poem Teseida and appears in Shakespeare’s 1603 tragedy Othello as the name of Iago’s wife.
20062006: 759 births, rank #420
2007: 781 births, rank #420
2008: 804 births, rank #401
2009: 789 births, rank #399
2010: 927 births, rank #348
20112011: 972 births, rank #325
2012: 1,213 births, rank #268
2013: 1,564 births, rank #205
2014: 2,004 births, rank #164
2015: 2,225 births, rank #145
20162016: 3,033 births, rank #103
2017: 3,596 births, rank #77
2018: 4,040 births, rank #58
2019: 4,774 births, rank #44
2020: 4,786 births, rank #41
20212021: 4,854 births, rank #40
2022: 4,685 births, rank #44
2023: 4,687 births, rank #42
2024: 4,649 births, rank #43
20252025: 4,677 births, rank #45
Emilia has made a dramatic comeback. After first appearing in the US records in 1880, it fell to #994 by 1948, before climbing to #45 in 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2021, with 4,854 births.