Emily (given name)
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| Pronunciation | /ˈɛməliː/ |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin |
| Meaning | Rival |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Emilia, Emilie, Em, Emely, Emmy, Emi, Millie, Milly |
Emily is a feminine given name derived from the Roman family name "Aemilius", and is the feminine form of the name Emil.[1]
Popularity
Emily has been a hugely popular name in the English-speaking world, ranking among the most popular names in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. It held the position for over a decade as the most common name given to girls in the United States but fell to sixth place in 2009.[2] In 2013, it was the sixth most popular name for girls in Australia.[3]
It is also a common name in numerous other countries.[4] Emily and Emma switched off as the number one most popular baby name for thirteen consecutive years until 2009 when Emma placed in second behind Isabella and Emily ranked as sixth. In the period between 2010 and 2018, Emily was the 8th most popular girl's name in the United States, after Emma which took 1st place [5]
"Emily also has literary associations, including Emily Dickinson, evoking images of a woman who is both beautiful and smart," noted a May 11, 2008, Associated Press article.[6]
Name variants
Alternate forms include:
- Aemilia (Latin)
- Aemiliana (Latin)
- Aemilianus (Latin)
- Aemilius (Latin)
- Aimilios (Greek)
- Amilia (English)
- Eemeli (Finnish)
- Eemi (Finnish)
- Eemil (Finnish)
- Em (English)
- Emalee (English)
- Emelie (Swedish)
- Emely (English)
- Emiel (Dutch)
- Emil (Bulgarian), (Croatian), (Czech), (Danish), (English), (German), (Hungarian), (Icelandic), (Macedonian), (Norwegian), (Polish), (Romanian), (Russian), (Serbian), (Slovak), (Slovene), (Swedish)
- Émile (French)
- Emilee (English)
- Emili (Catalan)
- Emili (Hebrew), (Hungarian)
- Emília (Hungarian), (Portuguese), (Slovak)
- Emilía (Icelandic)
- Emilia (Bulgarian), (Danish), (English), (Finnish), (German), (Italian), (Norwegian), (Polish), (Romanian), (Spanish), (Swedish)
- Emilian (Polish), (Romanian)
- Emiliana (Italian), (Portuguese), (Spanish)
- Emiliano (Italian), (Spanish)
- Émilie (French)
- Emíli (Czech)
- Emilie (Czech), (Danish), (German), (Norwegian), (Swedish)
- Émilien (French)
- Émilienne (French)
- Emīlija (Latvian)
- Emilija (Croatian), (Lithuanian), (Macedonian), (Serbian), (Slovene)
- Emílio (Portuguese)
- Emilio (Italian), (Spanish)
- Emilios (Greek)
- Emilis (Lithuanian)
- Emiliya (Bulgarian)
- Emīls (Latvian)
- Emily (English)
- Emlyn (Welsh)
- Emmi (Finnish)
- Emmie (English)
- Emmy (English), (French)
- Emy (French)
- Milja (Finnish)
- Mille (Danish), (Norwegian), (Swedish)
- Millie (English)
- Milly (English), (Norwegian), (Swedish)
- Yemelyan (Russian)
People with the name
Academics
- Emily Ying Yang Chan (born 1974), Hong Kong SAR academic
Actresses
- Emily Barclay (born 1984), New Zealand actress
- Emily Beecham (born 1984), English Actress
- Emily Blunt (born 1983), English actress
- Emily Booth (born 1976), English actress and TV presenter
- Emily Browning (born 1988), Australian actress
- Emily Deschanel (born 1976), American actress
- Emily Gimmel (born 1984), American journalist and TV personality
- Emily Hampshire (born 1981), Canadian actress
- Emily Joyce (born 1969), British actress
- Emily Kagan (born 1981), American mixed martial artist
- Emily Lloyd (born 1970), British actress
- Emily Mortimer (born 1971), English actress
- Emily Osment (born 1992), American actress
- Emily Perkins (born 1977), Canadian actress
- Emily Procter (born 1968), American actress
- Emily Ratajkowski, (born 1991) American actress
- Emily Robins (born 1989), New Zealand actress
- Emily Rose (actress) (born 1981), American actress
- Emily Rutherfurd (born 1974), American actress
- Emily or Emma Stone (born 1988), American actress
- Emily VanCamp (born 1986), Canadian actress
- Emily Watson (born 1967), English actor
Musicians
- Emily Bauer (born 1981), American singer
- Emily Haines (born 1974), Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter
- Emily Magee (born 1968), American soprano
- Emily Remler (1957–1990), American jazz guitarist
- Emily Robison (born 1972), American songwriter
- Emily Saliers (born 1963), American singer-songwriter
- Emily Smith (singer) (born 1981), Scottish folk singer
Sportswomen
- Emily Cross (born 1986), American foil fencer
- Emily Csikos (born 1988), Canadian water polo player
- Emily Gillam (born 1977), New Zealand field hockey player
- Emily Hughes (born 1989), American figure skater
- Emily Jacobson (born 1985), American saber fencer
- Emily Kukors (born 1985), American swimmer
- Emily LeSueur (born 1972), American synchronized swimmer
- Emily Samuelson (born 1990), American figure skater
- Emily Seebohm (born 1992), Australian swimmer
- Emily Silver (born 1985), American swimmer
- Emily Hood Westacott (1910–1980), Australian tennis player
- Emily Westwood (born 1984), English football player
- Emily Whitehead (born 2000), Australian artistic gymnast
Writers
- Emily Barton (born 1969), American novelist
- Emily Bazelon (born 1971), American journalist
- Emily Lucas Blackall (1832-1892), American writer, philanthropist
- Emily St. John Bouton (1837–1927), American educator, journalist, author, editor
- Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist, author of Wuthering Heights
- Emily Carr (1871–1945), Canadian artist and writer
- Emily Thornton Charles (1845-1895), American poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper founder
- Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet
- Emily Gerard (1849–1905), British author
- Emily Gravett (born 1972), British children's author and illustrator
- Emily Arnold McCully (born 1939), American children's author
- Emily Cheney Neville (1919–1997), American author
- Emily Sullivan Oakey (1829–1883), American educator, author, poet, hymnist
- Emily Rebecca Page (1823-1908), American poet
- Emily Perkins (novelist) (born 1970), New Zealand author
- Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827–1890), Welsh poet, philanthropist
- Emily Post (1872–1960), American author on etiquette
- Emily Prager, American author and journalist
- Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan (1839–1916), American author, journalist
- Emily Smith (author), British children's author
- Emily Elizabeth Veeder (1841-?), American author
Others
- Emily Ayckbowm (1836–1900), English founder of the Community of the Sisters of the Church
- Emily Bisharat (died 2004), Jordanian suffragette, philanthropist, and the first female lawyer in the Kingdom of Jordan
- Emily Blackwell (1826–1910), American academic
- Emily Blathwayt (1852 – 1940), British suffragette, mother of Mary Blathwayt; Eagle House home was "Suffragette's Rest", planted trees for hunger strikers
- Emily Brooke (born 1985), British inventor
- Emmelia of Caesarea (a.k.a. Saint Emily) (d. 375), mother of Basil the Great
- Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909), American suffragist, activist, writer
- Emily Davison (1872–1913), British suffragette
- Emily Donelson (1807–1836), daughter-in-law of and First Lady under Andrew Jackson
- Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American academic, pacifist and Nobel Laureate
- Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926), British welfare campaigner
- Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910–1996) indigenous Australian artist
- Emily Madder, Australian corporate lawyer
- Emily Murphy (1868–1933), Canadian feminist
- Emily Pankhurst (1858–1928), English political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement
- Emily Austin Perry (1795–1851), Texas historical figure
- Emily McGary Selinger (1848–1927), American painter, writer, poet, educator
- Emily Shenkl (1910–1996), a leader in the Indian Independence Movement
- Emily Sherwin, American law professor
- Emily Pitts Stevens (1841–1906), American educator, activist, editor, publisher
- Emily Taylor (1795–1872), English schoolmistress, poet, children's writer, hymnwriter
- Emily Waheneka (1919-2008), Native American artist
- Emily Kathryn Wyant (1897–1942), American mathematician
- Emily Young (born 1951), British sculptor
- Emily Young (film director) (born 1970), English film director and screenwriter
- Sagufta Yasmin Emily, Bangladesh Awami League politician and Member of Parliament
Fictional people
- Emily (Emelye), the maiden whose hand cousins Arcite and Palamon compete for in The Knight's Tale
- Emily Arrow, main female character in Patricia Reilly Giff’s Polk Street School series
- Emily Barham, the female lead in the 1964 movie The Americanization of Emily, played by Julie Andrews
- Emily Bartlett, heroine of Beverly Cleary's Emily's Runaway Imagination
- Emily Bennett, character in the American fantasy-drama television series The Vampire Diaries
- Emily Bishop, character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Emily Chester, 1864 American novel
- Emily Davis, one of eight protagonists in the survival horror game Until Dawn
- Emily Drozynski, main character in the Western Drama Yellowstone (American TV series)
- Emily Elizabeth, a character in the television series Clifford the Big Red Dog
- Emily Eyefinger, main character of the Emily Eyefinger series about a girl with an eye on her finger
- Emily Fields, major character in the TV series Pretty Little Liars
- Emily Fitch, character in the TV series Skins
- Emily Gilmore, character in the TV series Gilmore Girls
- Emily Grierson, main character of the William Faulkner short story "A Rose for Emily"
- Emily Nelson, main character from A Simple Favour
- Emily Pollifax, heroine of The Mrs. Pollifax series of spy-mystery novels by Dorothy Gilman
- Emily Prentiss, character on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds
- Emily Rose, the lead character of the movie Exorcism of Emily Rose.
- Emily Quartermaine, character on the soap opera General Hospital
- Emily Byrd Starr, heroine of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Emily of New Moon novels
- Emily Thorne, main character in the TV series Revenge (TV series)
- Emily Windsnap, main character in a series of novels by Liz Kessler
- Emily Young, character in Twilight (novel series)
- Emily the Strange, cartoon character and merchandising mascot
- Emily, character in the TV series Power Rangers Samurai
- Emily (Thomas & Friends), anthropomorphic steam locomotive in the children's TV series Thomas & Friends
- Emily Kaldwin, character of Dishonored series
- Emily the Emerald Fairy, character in the Rainbow Magic book franchise
- Emily O'Malley, main character of the Delicious video game series
See also
- Amelia (name)
- Emil (given name)
- Emilee (given name)
- Emilia (given name)
- Émilie, a French feminine given name
- Emilie Meng (1998–2016), Danish teenager who was murdered
- Emma (name)
- Emily (disambiguation)
- Emilio (given name)
Notes
- ^ https://www.behindthename.com/name/emily
- ^ Social Security Administration
- ^ "Australia's 100 most popular baby names". Kidspot. April 2, 2013. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ^ Behind the Name
- ^ https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names2010s.html
- ^ "Emily, Jacob, again top list of most popular baby names. Associated Press. (5-10-2008)