Entry № 2946 · Germanic origin

Emelia Emelia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Industrious, striving"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "industrious, striving".

Emelia is a variant spelling of Amelia, meaning industrious and striving.

A fresh spelling of a well-loved name, it keeps the familiar sound with a look all its own.

Industrious, striving — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Emelia
Transliteration
Emelia
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Emelia stands.

Emelia 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.

Emelias before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Emelia.

The number behind Emelia.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Emelia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.