Emilia (given name)

Emilia is a feminine name of Latin origin. It is got from the name Emily, which itself  is got from the Latin aemulus, meaning “rival” or “emulating”. 

The name Emilia is often associated with the Latin phrase “aemulare”, which means “to strive to equal or excel”. This name was ranked #40 on the US Popular Female Names in 2021.

Popularity
As of 2010, records indicated that more than 13,500 girls in the USA had been named Emilia since 1880. The popularity has been increasing after the year 2000.Emilia  at Babynameshub.com

People with this name
 Emilia (Bulgarian singer)
 Emilia Broomé, politician
 Emilia Bakala, Polish developer
 Emilia Cano, Spanish race walker
 Emilia Clarke, UK actress
 Emilia Fox, UK actress
 Emilia of Gaeta, duchess of Gaeta
 Emilia Attías, Argentine actress and model
 Emilia Kabakov, artist, wife of Ilya Kabakov
 Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer
 Emilia Plater, Polish patriot and revolutionary
 Emilia Ramboldt (earlier Emilia Andersson), Swedish ice hockey player
 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
 Emilia Diamant, the daughter of Anita Diamant

Fictional characters
Emilia, one of seven women occurring in the character of narrators in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Emília, a main character 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
 *Emelia in Digital: A Love Story

References

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