Emile

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Emile is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name. In French, recorded as From Latin Aemilius, possibly 'rival' or 'eager'.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 177as Emil
  • DKDenmark1 in 240as Emil

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Emile itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

57,610 named Emil

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
410 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EmilLatin(measured from records)
ԷմիլArmenian(measured from records)
เอมิลThai(measured from records)
ემილGeorgian(measured from records)
এমিলBengali(measured from records)
ΕμιλGreek(measured from records)
ЭмилCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Emil in SE Sweden, NO Norway, DE Germany and 3 more.

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)

From Latin Aemilius, possibly 'rival' or 'eager'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

How Emile is read(measured from records)

Emile 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.

  • French63%

    From Latin Aemilius, possibly 'rival' or 'eager'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Du latin Aemilius, « rival »; fête de saint Émile le 22 mai.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    Latin origin; means « émule ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • English23%

    A male given name from Latin of Latin origin, an anglicized spelling of French Émile.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

Emile 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.

Where Emile is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#6957,610as Emil1 in 17758KEmil152
BR Brazil—47,647as Emili1 in 4.4K57K—4
DE Germany#420≈30,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Emil192
PL Poland—29,681as Emil1 in 1.3K30K—6
FR France#276≈29,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K168KEmile320
AZ Azerbaijan—≈27,000 est.≈1 in 3751.7KEmil35
DK Denmark#6924,463as Emil1 in 24024KEmil171
FI Finland—20,290as Emil1 in 27540KEmil41
NO Norway#14613,738as Emil1 in 39848KEmil104

57,610 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Emile is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Emilė, Ėmile, Èmile, Émile, Emilé

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Émile

90 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Emile 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.

  • In mnc, romanization of ᡝᠮᡳᠯᡝ

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

18001850190019502000Émile Zola, b. 1840Jules Massenet, b. 1842Émile Durkheim, b. 1858Émile Bernard, b. 1868Henri Matisse, b. 1869Émile Borel, b. 1871Paul Éluard, b. 1895Dominique Zardi, b. 1930Émile Lahoud, b. 1936Emile Heskey, b. 1978

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 86 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Emile
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024168K#146
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—31K#1,071
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202226K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—26K#898
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20202.5K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—379#3,341
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—272#898
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—216#1,799
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—198#4,820
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—130#6,473
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020129—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—64—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 does the name Emile mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Aemilius, possibly 'rival' or 'eager'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Emile a male or female name?
Emile is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What are other forms of the name Emile?
In the etymology graph, Emil is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Emile have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 58 thousand people named Emil, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Emile?
In Sweden, the national register counted 57,610 people named Emil, about 1 in 177 residents.
How common is Emile compared with other names?
In Sweden, Emile is the 69th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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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, “Emile” — the 69th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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