Emelia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emelia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 65th most common given name. In English, recorded as variant of Amelia or Emilia; meaning uncertain.
- GHGhana≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5K
- USUnited States1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Emelía in IS Iceland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Amelia or Emilia; meaning uncertain
Sources 1
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Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Emelia is read(measured from records)
Emelia is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish44%
Del griego emmeleia: 'armonía, afinación del canto'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English37%
variant of Amelia or Emilia; meaning uncertain
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emelia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | listed | Emelia | 37 |
| GH Ghana | #65 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Emelia | 50 |
| US United States | — | 10,301 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Emelia | 292 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Emelia | 71 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Emelia | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,239 | 1 in 4.6K | 2.2K | Emelia | 24 |
| FI Finland | — | 391 | 1 in 14K | 710 | Emelia | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 178 | 1 in 2K | 178 | Emelía | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Emelia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emelia Christine Schaubb. 1891USAmerican lawyer
- Ella Odstedtb. 1892SEnot in their usual nameSwedish ethnologist
- bonifacios o líneas Mario Moreno cantinfalesb. 1929CUnot in their usual nameCuban-Mexican rumbera and actress (1929–2015)
- Em Ruscianob. 1979AUnot in their usual nameAustralian singer
- Emelia Burnsb. 1982AUAustralian actress
- Emelia Brobbeyb. 1982GHGhanaian actress, TV hostess, and film producer
- Emelia Goreckab. 1994GBBritish long-distance runner
- Emelia Hanssonb. 1994SESwedish actor
- Emelia J. Benjaminb. 2000USepidemiologist
- Emelia HartfordUSRace car driver and builder
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10K | #2,416 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.2K | #987 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 710 | #940 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 488 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 391 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 374 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21 | #2,416 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Emelia?
- In the etymology graph, Amelia, Amalia and Amelie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Emelia mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Amelia or Emilia; meaning uncertain Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Emelia a male or female name?
- Emelia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Emelia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Emelia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emelia.
- Where is Emelia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Emelia is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Emelia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,301 people named Emelia in 2020, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Emelia compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Emelia is the 65th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emeliaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Emelia” — the 65th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.