girls:
13k births since 1880
#1368 (76th percentile)
overall:
13k births since 1880
#2308 (70th percentile)
The name Emelia is the #2,308 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,008 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 70.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,368 (76.1% percentile) for all time with 13,008 births since 1880.
Emelia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Emelia reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 57.7% percentile (ranked #398) with 386 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 386 births per million (ranked 57.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1978, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Emelia ranks #469 for girls (50.5% percentile) with 325 births per million, which is 84.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emelia".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Emilia. View all variations of Emilia.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Emelia", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 17 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Emilia" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Emilia..
Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Emelia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.7% confident that Emelia is pronounced as ih-MEEL-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-MEE-lee-uh, at 14.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like IH0 M IY1 L Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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