Emilia

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Emilia is ranked 43rd among girls in 2024 (4,634 births). Its best rank was 40th, in 2021.

Rank in 2024: #43down 1 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4,6340.29% of girls
Peak year: 20214,851 births
Best rank: #40in 2021
Since 1880: 64,367people given the name

Babies named Emilia, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

64,367 girls have been named Emilia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 4,851 births — 0.30% of all girls recorded that year.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 38%. It has spent 102 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Emilia
1880s	133
1890s	238
1900s	376
1910s	895
1920s	1,212
1930s	798
1940s	691
1950s	686
1960s	717
1970s	726
1980s	1,360
1990s	2,209
2000s	6,347
2010s	24,344
2020s	23,635

In 2021, its biggest year

Emilia was the 40th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Emilia

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.