Emilia (given name)

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Emilia is a feminine given name of Romanic origin.

Etymology

Emilia is a feminine given name derived from the Roman feminine name Aemilia. The Latin name Aemilius/Aemilia in turn may derive from the same root as the Latin word aemulus, which means to rival, excel, or emulate,^[1] but this may be a folk etymology.

The gens name Aemilia was translated into English as Emily.

Etymologists believe that although similar Germanic names like Amelia sound similar to the Italian Emilia or Aemilia/Emily, they have a different origin.

Popularity

As of 2010, records indicate that more than 13,500 girls in the United States have been named Emilia since 1880, with numbers increasing markedly from the year 2000.^[2]

People with this name

• Emilia Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player
• Emilia (Bulgarian singer), full name Emiliya Valeva, known by the mononym Emilia
• Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer
• Emilia Broomé, politician
• Emilia Bakala, Polish developer
• Emilia Cano, Spanish race walker
• Emilia Clarke, British actress
• Emilia Fox, British actress
• Emilia of Gaeta, duchess of Gaeta
• Emilia Attías, Argentine actress and model
• Emilia Kabakov, artist, wife of Ilya Kabakov
• Emilia Plater, Polish patriot and revolutionary
• Emilia Rotter, Hungarian 4x world champion figure skater
• Emilia Rydberg, Ethiopian-Swedish pop singer
• Emilia Uggla, Swedish pianist
• Emília Vášáryová, Slovak actress
• Emilia Jane Mills Webb (née Goodlake), wife of William Frederick Webb
• Emilia Kaczorowska Wojtyla, the mother of Pope John Paul II

Fictional characters

• Emilia, one of the seven women occurring in the character of narrators in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
• Emília is one of the main characters in the Brazilian children's books Sítio do Picapau Amarelo by Monteiro Lobato
• Emilia in William Shakespeare's play Othello
• Emilia Ridderfjell in the Bert diaries
• *Emilia in Digital: A Love Story

Variant forms

• Emily

References