Entry № 2971 · Latin origin

Emilia Emilia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-MEE-lee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Rival, eager"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Roman)

A name that means "rival, eager".

Emilia comes from the Latin Aemilia, the feminine of the Roman family name Aemilius — possibly from aemulus, meaning "rival" or "eager." The same root gives Amelia (which entered English via the Germanic line) and Emily (the simpler English form).

Emilia rose dramatically in the U.S. Today Emilia sits in the U.S. top 100.

Rival. The Italian-Spanish form of an English-Germanic family.

The name in its native script.

Emilia
Transliteration
Emilia
Pronunciation
/ əˈmiː.li.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Emilia stands.

Emilia 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.

Emilias before her.

Real people
Emilia Clarke
British actress, Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones.
born 1986
Emilia Pérez
Title of the 2024 musical film by Jacques Audiard.
In fiction
Emilia
Iago's wife in Shakespeare's Othello.
1604 play

Names connected to Emilia.

The number behind Emilia.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Emilia reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.