Emily

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The name Emily is a female given name. It is the English form of the Latin gens name Aemilia meaning "rival": originally "those in the next valley," and therefore the root is the same as for "emulate" (not to be confused with the similar-sounding but unrelated Germanic names Amelia and Emma).

It is one of the top ten most popular womens name in the United States.

Famous bearers of the name Emily include:

• Lady Emily Lennox
• Emily West Morgan
• Emily Stevens
• Emily Howland, a philanthropist and educator
• Emily J. Reynolds, Secretary of the United States Senate
• Emily Kngwarreye, an Australian Aboriginal artist
• Emily Oster, an American economist
• Emily Hughes, an American figure skater

Contents 1 Literature and Poetry 2 Media 3 Suffragists 4 Fictional Characters 5 Other 6 Translations 7 Popular Spellings

[edit] Literature and Poetry

• Emily Brontë
• Emily Dickinson
• Emily Vermeule, an American scholar and archaeologist
• Emily Lawless, an Irish writer
• Emily Hahn, an American journalist and author
• Emily Lloyd, a British actress
• Emily Post

[edit] Media

• Emily Hart
• Emily Carr, famous painter sometimes associated with the Group of Seven.
• Emily Vinette, contestant on Canadian Idol
• Emily Osment, an American child actress
• Emily Tyndall, an American actress and dancer
• Emily VanCamp, a Canadian actress
• Emily Remler, an American Jazz musician
• Emily Erwin, an American country songwriter
• Emily Picha, an American singer-songwriter
• Emily Procter, an American actress
• Emily Brown, an American voice actress

[edit] Suffragists

• Emily Blackwell, the third woman to earn a medical degree in the United States
• Emily Murphy, a Canadian women's right activist and the first female police magistrate in the British Empire
• Emily Davison, a British suffragette
• Emily Shenkl, a leader in the Indian Independence Movement

[edit] Fictional Characters

• Emily Bishop, a character from Coronation Street
• Emily Kirk, a character from the ITV Soap opera Emmerdale
• Emily a character from the Thomas the Tank Engine series
• Emily, the Corpse Bride. A character from the 2005 stop motion movie The Corpse Bride.

[edit] Other

• Emily, Minnesota.
• Emily (cartoon), a French cartoon that appeared on the Nickelodeon variety show, Pinwheel.
• Emily (the) Strange is a cartoon character and merchandising mascot.

Also, the name is on the list of tropical cyclone names for storms in the Atlantic Ocean; see Hurricane Emily (disambiguation).

The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 WWII movie that was adapted from the novel by William Bradford Huie.

'The Exorcism of Emily Rose' is a 2005 horror film about the possesion and exorcism of a Catholic girl named Emily Rose. It is actually based of the true story of a German woman named Anneliese Michel.

The Japanese Imperial Navy Flying Boat used in WWII, Kawanishi H8K, nicknamed "Emily" in the Allied identification code.

Emily is also an anagram for Early Money Is Like Yeast and Every Moment I Love You.

Emily is also a popular name to feature in song titles, from bands including From First To Last, Joanna Newsom, Feeder, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, Bowling For Soup, Stephen Fretwell, Adam Green, Manic Street Preachers, Leon Russell, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Art Brut.

In 2005, Emily was considered to be the most popular baby name for a female based on the number of new social security cards bearing the name. As required by the SSA, only proper spellings of "Emily" are counted in the tally (i.e. variations such as Em are counted separately). [1]

[edit] Translations

• French: Émilie
• German: Emilie
• Italian: Emilia
• Japanese: Emiri
• Portuguese: Emília
• Spanish: Emilia, Emely
• Lithuanian: Emilia
• Arabic: إميلي

[edit] Popular Spellings

• Emily
• Emilee
• Emmalee
• Emely
• Emilie