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Emily
Pronunciation Gender Female Language(s)
Latin Meaning Rival Related names
Emily is a feminine given name derived from the
Roman family name "
Aemilius ", and is the feminine form of the name
Emil .
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Popularity
Emily has been a 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[
when? ] as the most common name given to girls in the United States.
[2] It has declined in usage in some countries but has remained a well-used name all over the world.
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The popularity of the name in the 1990s and early years of the 21st century has given the name an
everywoman image for women in their twenties. As a result, the name has recently been used for a number of characters in film and television productions such as
Emily the Criminal and
Emily in Paris .
[3] The name has also been used in an
internet meme that satirizes
progressive young
white women.
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Name variants
Alternate forms include:
Aemilia (
Latin )
Aemiliana (
Latin )
Aemilianus (
Latin )
Aemilius (
Latin )
Aimil (
Scottish Gaelic )
Aimilios (
Greek )
Aimilia (
Greek )
Ái My (
Vietnamese )
Amilia (
English )
Eemeli (
Finnish )
Eemi (
Finnish )
Eemil (
Finnish )
Eimíle (
Irish )
Emalee (
English )
Emelie (
Swedish )
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 )
Emílie (
Czech )
Emilie (
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 )
Emīlija (
Latvian )
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
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 Burnett (born 1996), Welsh actress
Emily Coutts (born 1989), Canadian 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 Kinney (born 1985), American actress, singer, and songwriter
Emily Lloyd (born 1970), British actress
Emily Lloyd-Saini , British actress, broadcaster, writer and comedian
Emily Mortimer (born 1971), English actress
Emily Osment (born 1992), American actress and singer, best known for playing a character in
Hannah Montana
Emily Perkins (born 1977), Canadian actress
Emily Procter (born 1968), American actress
Emily Ratajkowski (born 1991), American actress
Emily Bett Rickards (born 1991), Canadian 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 actress
Musicians
Sportswomen
Emily Cross (born 1986), American foil fencer
Emily Csikos (born 1988), Canadian water polo player
Emily van Egmond (born 1993), Australian footballer
Emily Gielnik (born 1992), Australian footballer
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 Steele Elliott (1836–1897), English religious writer
Emily Gerard (1849–1905), Scottish author
Emily Goodrich Smith (1830–1903), American newspaper correspondent
Emily Gravett (born 1972), British children's author and illustrator
Emily Lowe (died 1882), British travel writer
Emily Arnold McCully (born 1939), American children's author
Emily Julian McManus (1865–1918), Canadian poet, author, and educator
Emily Mkamanga (1949–2021), Malawian writer and social commentator
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 (1841–1898), 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
Emily Rose Bleby (1849–1917), Jamaican-born British temperance reformer
Emily Brooke (born 1985), British inventor
Emmelia of Caesarea or Saint Emily (died 375), mother of Basil the Great
Emily Callaway (fl.2022), American politician
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909), American suffragist, activist, writer
Emily M. J. Cooley (1831–1917), American religious and temperance leader
Emily Davison (1872–1913), British suffragette
Emily Dievendorf , American politician
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 Harris , terrorist with the Symbionese Liberation Army
Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926), British welfare campaigner
Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin (1838–1907), American temperance reformer
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910–1996), indigenous Australian artist
Emily L. Loveridge (1860–1941), American nurse, educator, school founder, and hospital superintendent
Emily Waita Macharia (born 1979), Kenyan public relations officer
Emily Morse (born 1970), American sex therapist, author, and media personality
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 Vontz (born 2000), German politician
Emily Waheneka (1919–2008), Native American artist
Emily Wong (born 1992), known as
Emi Wong , Hong Kong YouTuber who makes fitness, lifestyle, and travelling videos
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 characters
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 The Stirling Engine, a Major Character in
Thomas & Friends
Emily Barham, the female lead in the 1964 film
The Americanization of Emily , played by Julie Andrews
Emily Bartlett, heroine of
Beverly Cleary 's
Emily's Runaway Imagination
Emily Bennett , in the CW fantasy-drama TV series
The Vampire Diaries
Emily Bennett,
American Girl character, best friend of
Molly McIntire
Emily Bishop , in the British soap opera
Coronation Street
Emily Byrne, main character of the
Absentia TV series
Emily Chester , title character of the 1864 American novel by Anne Moncure Crane
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 Dyer, a survivor in the video game
Identity V
Emily-Elizabeth , in the PBS animated preschool TV series
Clifford the Big Red Dog , voiced by
Grey DeLisle
Emily the Emerald Fairy, in the
Rainbow Magic book franchise
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 , in the TV series
Skins
Emily Gilmore , in the TV series
Gilmore Girls
Emily Grierson , main character of William Faulkner's short story "
A Rose for Emily "
Emily Kaldwin , of
Dishonored series
Emily Morgen in the TV series
Prison Break
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 , on the CBS crime drama
Criminal Minds
Emily Rose, the lead character of the film
Exorcism of Emily Rose
Emily Quartermaine , on the ABC soap opera
General Hospital
Emily Byrd Starr , heroine of L. Maud Montgomery's
Emily of New Moon novels
Emily Stewart (エミリー・スチュアート ) , in
The Idolmaster Million Live!
Emily Thorne , main character in the TV drama
Revenge
Emily Valentine, a character in
Beverly Hills, 90210
Emily Windsnap , main character in a series of novels by
Liz Kessler
Emily Young , in
Twilight (novel series)
Emily the Strange , cartoon character and merchandising mascot
Emily , in the Nickelodeon TV series
Power Rangers Samurai
Emily , a.k.a. Miyuki Hoshizora, protagonist of
Glitter Force /
Smile PreCure!
See also
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