Emelia Girl
How popular is Emelia?
#601 girl name in 2025
488 baby girls were named Emelia in the US in 2025, making it the 601st most popular girl name.
Emelia popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #601 for girls (▼ 27 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 488 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-4% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #591 in 2015, #452 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2019 (701 girls) |
| Highest rank | #331 in 1883 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Emelia counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Emilia family of names ranked #46 for girls in 2025 (#47 the year before), with 5,272 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Emilia | 4,677 | 89% |
| Emelia | 488 | 9% |
| Emmelia | 37 | 1% |
| Emillia | 18 | 0% |
| Emylia | 20 | 0% |
| Emilya | 9 | 0% |
| Emalia | 5 | 0% |
| Emmilia | 11 | 0% |
| Emiliah | 7 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Emelia is most popular
Babies named Emelia per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maine: 1.2 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Rhode Island: 0.9 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- New Hampshire: 0.8 per 1,000 (15 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.7 per 1,000 (76 girls)
- Connecticut: 0.7 per 1,000 (42 girls)
Emelia by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 201 | #331 |
| 1890s | 273 | #435 |
| 1900s | 229 | #603 |
| 1910s | 409 | #781 |
| 1920s | 445 | #969 |
| 1930s | 224 | #1,161 |
| 1940s | 194 | #1,882 |
| 1950s | 189 | #2,001 |
| 1960s | 134 | #2,999 |
| 1970s | 126 | #3,894 |
| 1980s | 310 | #2,469 |
| 1990s | 699 | #1,749 |
| 2000s | 2,077 | #872 |
| 2010s | 4,988 | #443 |
| 2020s | 3,530 | #452 |
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Questions
- Is Emelia a boy or girl name?
- Emelia is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Emelia were girls.
- How popular is the name Emelia?
- 488 baby girls were named Emelia in the US in 2025, making it the 601st most popular girl name.
- When was Emelia most popular?
- Emelia peaked in 2019, when 701 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #331 in 1883.
- How many people are named Emelia?
- 14,028 babies have been named Emelia in the US since 1880. We estimate about 12,119 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Emelia most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Emelia was most common in Maine, at 1.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.