Entry № 191 · Latin origin

Aemilia Aemilia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-MEE-lee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Eager; rival"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "eager; rival".

Aemilia is the original Roman form behind Emily and Emilia, from the gens Aemilia, linked to aemulus (eager, striving).

Stately and ancient, it is the classical root of a modern favourite.

Eager; rival — a name from Latin myth.

The name in its native script.

Aemilia
Transliteration
Aemilia
Pronunciation
/ eˈmi.li.a /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aemilia stands.

Aemilia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aemilias before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Aemilia.

The number behind Aemilia.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aemilia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.