Popularity of the name Emilia, 1880–2025

Emilia was at its most popular in 2020, when 4,786 girls were given the name: about 1 in 340 girls born in the U.S. that year, ranking #41. In 2025, 4,677 girls were named Emilia, ranking #45. In all, Social Security counts 69,076 girls named Emilia since 1880. Social Security’s records also list 45 boys named Emilia.

Peak year

2020

Rank in 2020

#41

Babies in 2020

4,786

Rank in 2025

#45

Total since 1880

69,076

Where it stands now

In the past decade the name climbed from #145 in 2015 to #45 in 2025: 2,225 girls got it in 2015, and 4,677 in 2025.

Decade by decade

Its best decade is the 2020s so far, when 28,338 girls were named Emilia, #43 for the decade. It started at #589 in the 1880s.

Every 20 years in the records: 9 in 1880 (#580), 38 in 1900 (#556), 109 in 1920 (#698), 66 in 1940 (#879), 66 in 1960 (#1,354), 116 in 1980 (#1,161), 402 in 2000 (#624) and 4,786 in 2020 (#41).

Highs and lows

The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,854, in 2021. That is not its peak year: Social Security’s records hold more girls for 2021 than for 2020, so the name’s share of births was smaller. Its best rank in any year was #40, first reached in 2021.

Every year

The table lists every year from 1880 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 girls named Emilia, with the name’s rank that year.

How these numbers are counted

Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.

Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.