Emily
Emily is a feminine given name derived from the Roman family name "Aemilius", and is the feminine form of the name Emil.
Popularity
Emily has been a popular name in the English-speaking world, ranking among the most popular names in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. For more than a decade, from 1996 to 2007, it was the most common name given to girls in the United States. It has declined in usage in some countries but has remained a well-used name all over the world. In 2022, it was the 31st most popular name given to girls in Canada.In the English-speaking world, the name Emily first became popular thanks to German-born Princess Amelia Sophie of Great Britain, Ireland, and Hanover, who was called Emily in English.
The popularity of the name in the 1990s and early years of the 21st century has given the name an everywoman image for women in their twenties. As a result, the name has recently been used for a number of characters in film and television productions such as Emily the Criminal and Emily in Paris.
Name variants
Alternate forms include:- Aemilia
- Aemiliana
- Aemilianus
- Aemilius
- Aimil
- Aimilios
- Aimilia
- Ái My
- Amilia
- Eemeli
- Eemi
- Eemil
- Eimíle
- Emalee
- Emelie
- Emiel
- Emily
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- Émile
- Emilee
- Emili
- Emili,
- Emília,,
- Emilía
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- Emilian,
- Emiliana, Indonesian,,
- Emiliano,
- Émilie
- Emílie
- Emilie,,,
- Émilien
- Émilienne
- Emīlija
- Emilija,,,,
- Emílio
- Emilio,
- Emilios
- Emilis
- Emiliya
- Emīlija
- Emlyn
- Emmi
- Emmie
- Emmy,,
- Emiri/えみり
- Emy,
- Milja
- Mille,,
- Millie
- Milly,,,
- Yemelyan
People with the name
Academics
- Emily Ying Yang Chan, Hong Kong SAR academic
- Emily Hendree Stewart Park, president, Washington Seminary (Atlanta)
- Emily Wick, American chemist at MIT
Actresses
- Emily Barclay, New Zealand actress
- Emily Beecham, English actress
- Emily Blunt, English actress
- Emily Booth, English actress and TV presenter
- Emily Browning, Australian actress
- Emily Burnett, Welsh actress
- Emily Coutts, Canadian actress
- Emily Deschanel, American actress
- Emily Gimmel, American journalist and TV personality
- Emily Hampshire, Canadian actress
- Emily Joyce, British actress
- Emily Kagan, American mixed martial artist
- Emily Kinney, American actress, singer, and songwriter
- Emily Lloyd, British actress
- Emily Lloyd-Saini, British actress, broadcaster, writer and comedian
- Emily Mortimer, English actress
- Emily Osment, American actress and singer
- Emily Perkins, Canadian actress
- Emily Procter, American actress
- Emily Ratajkowski, American actress
- Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress
- Emily Robins, New Zealand actress
- Emily Rose (actress), American actress
- Emily Rutherfurd, American actress
- Emily or Emma Stone, American actress
- Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
- Emily Watson, English actress
Musicians
- Emily Armstrong, American singer
- Emily Bauer, American singer
- Emily Haines, Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter
- Emily Magee, American soprano
- Emily Nokes, American writer, artist, music critic and musician
- Emily Remler, American jazz guitarist
- Emily Robison, American songwriter
- Emily Saliers, American singer-songwriter
- Emily Smith (singer), Scottish folk singer
- Emily Wong, Chinese singer and actress
Sportswomen
- Emily Asquith, English boxer
- Emily Bessoir, German basketball player
- Emily Clark, Canadian ice hockey player
- Emily Cross, American foil fencer
- Emily Csikos, Canadian water polo player
- Emily van Egmond, Australian footballer
- Emily Gielnik, Australian footballer
- Emily Gillam, New Zealand field hockey player
- Emily Hallifax, French diver
- Emily Harrop, French ski mountaineer
- Emily Hughes, American figure skater
- Emily Jacobson, American saber fencer
- Emily Jing, American foil fencer
- Emily Kukors, American swimmer
- Emily LeSueur, American synchronized swimmer
- Emily Oberst, American wheelchair basketball player
- Emily Samuelson, American figure skater
- Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
- Emily Silver, American swimmer
- Emily Hood Westacott, Australian tennis player
- Emily Westwood, English football player
- Emily Whitehead, Australian artistic gymnast
Writers
- Emily Barton, American novelist
- Emily Bazelon, American journalist
- Emily Lucas Blackall, American writer, philanthropist
- Emily St. John Bouton, American educator, journalist, author, editor
- Emily Brontë, English novelist, author of Wuthering Heights
- Emily Carr, Canadian artist and writer
- Emily Thornton Charles, American poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper founder
- Emily Dickinson, American poet
- Emily Steele Elliott, English religious writer
- Emily Gerard, Scottish author
- Emily Goodrich Smith, American newspaper correspondent
- Emily Gravett, British children's author and illustrator
- Emily Jashinsky, American journalist
- Emily Lowe, British travel writer
- Emily Arnold McCully, American children's author
- Emily Julian McManus, Canadian poet, author, and educator
- Emily Mkamanga, Malawian writer and social commentator
- Emily Cheney Neville, American author
- Emily Sullivan Oakey, American educator, author, poet, hymnist
- Emily Rebecca Page, American poet
- Emily Augusta Patmore,British author, Pre-Raphaelite muse, inspiration for poem The Angel in the House.
- Emily Perkins (novelist), New Zealand author
- Emily Jane Pfeiffer, Welsh poet, philanthropist
- Emily Post, American author on etiquette
- Emily Prager, American author and journalist
- Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan, American author, journalist
- Emily Smith (author), British children's author
- Emily Elizabeth Veeder, American author
Others
- Emily Ayckbowm, English founder of the Community of the Sisters of the Church
- Emily Bisharat, Jordanian suffragette, philanthropist, and the first female lawyer in the Kingdom of Jordan
- Emily Blackwell, American academic
- Emily Blathwayt, British suffragette, mother of Mary Blathwayt
- Emily Rose Bleby, Jamaican-born British temperance reformer
- Emily Brooke, British inventor
- Emmelia of Caesarea or Saint Emily, mother of Basil the Great
- Emily Callaway, American politician
- Emily Carmichael, American film director, screenwriter, and animator
- Emily Parmely Collins, American suffragist, activist, writer
- Emily M. J. Cooley, American religious and temperance leader
- Emily Davison, British suffragette
- Emily Dievendorf, American politician
- Emily Donelson, daughter-in-law of and First Lady under Andrew Jackson
- Emily Greene Balch, American academic, pacifist and Nobel Laureate
- Emily Harris, terrorist with the Symbionese Liberation Army
- Emily Hobhouse, British welfare campaigner
- Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin, American temperance reformer
- Emily Pangnerk Illuitok, Inuk artist
- Emily Jones, English murder victim
- Emily Kame Kngwarreye, indigenous Australian artist
- Emily L. Loveridge, American nurse, educator, school founder, and hospital superintendent
- Emily Waita Macharia, Kenyan public relations officer
- Emily MacManus CBE, Matron Bristol Royal Infirmary then Guy's Hospital and President Royal College of Nursing
- Emily Nelson Ritchie McLean, American civic leader
- Emily Morse, American sex therapist, author, and media personality
- Emily Murphy, Canadian feminist
- Emily Pankhurst, English political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement
- Emily Austin Perry, Texas historical figure
- Emily McGary Selinger, American painter, writer, poet, educator
- Emily Shenkl, a leader in the Indian Independence Movement
- Emily Sherwin, American law professor
- Emily Pitts Stevens, American educator, activist, editor, publisher
- Emily Taylor, English schoolmistress, poet, children's writer, hymnwriter
- Emily Vontz, German politician
- Emily Waheneka, Native American artist
- Emily Wong, known as Emi Wong, Hong Kong YouTuber who makes fitness, lifestyle, and travelling videos
- Emily Kathryn Wyant, American mathematician
- Emily Young, British sculptor
- Emily Young (film director), English film director and screenwriter
- Sagufta Yasmin Emily, Bangladesh Awami League politician and Member of Parliament
Fictional characters
- Emily, the maiden whose hand cousins Arcite and Palamon compete for in The Knight's Tale
- Emily Arrow, main female character in Patricia Reilly Giff’s Polk Street School series
- Emily, a character in Thomas & Friends
- Emily Barham, the female lead in the 1964 film The Americanization of Emily, played by Julie Andrews
- Emily Bartlett, heroine of Beverly Cleary's Emily's Runaway Imagination
- List of [The Vampire Diaries characters|Emily Bennett], in the CW fantasy-drama TV series The Vampire Diaries
- Emily Bennett, American Girl character, best friend of Molly McIntire
- Emily Bishop, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Emily Bung, in Carry On Screaming
- Emily Byrne, main character of the Absentia TV series
- Emily Chester, title character of the 1864 American novel by Anne Moncure Crane
- Emily Davis, one of eight protagonists in the survival horror game Until Dawn
- Emily Drozynski, main character in the western drama Yellowstone (American TV series)
- Emily Dyer, a survivor in the video game Identity V
- Emily-Elizabeth, in the PBS animated preschool TV and book series Clifford the Big Red Dog, voiced by Grey DeLisle
- Emily Eyefinger, main character of the Emily Eyefinger series about a girl with an eye on her finger
- Emily Fields, major character in the TV series Pretty Little Liars
- Emily Fitch, in the TV series Skins
- Emily Gilmore, in the TV series Gilmore Girls
- Emily Grierson, main character of William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily"
- Emily Kaldwin, in the Dishonored video game series
- Emily Litella, a character created by comedian Gilda Radner in the TV comedy show Saturday Night Live
- Emily Merrimack, the main title characters from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Though her surname is not mentioned, it was used in early scripts.
- Emily Morgen in the TV series Prison Break
- Emily Nelson, main character of the film A Simple Favour
- Emily Pollifax, heroine of The Mrs. Pollifax series of spy-mystery novels by Dorothy Gilman
- Emily Prentiss, on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds
- Emily Rose, the lead character of the film Exorcism of Emily Rose
- Emily Quartermaine, on the ABC soap opera General Hospital
- Emily Byrd Starr, heroine of L. Maud Montgomery's Emily of New Moon novels
- Emily Stewart, in The Idolmaster Million Live!
- Emily Thorne, main character in the TV drama Revenge
- Emily Valentine, in Beverly Hills, 90210 characters#Emily Valentine|Beverly Hills, 90210]
- List of [Friends and Joey characters#Emily Waltham|Emily Waltham], Ross's second wife in the NBC sitcom Friends
- Emily Weiss, from the 1981 musical satire film Shock Treatment
- Emily Windsnap, main character in a series of novels by Liz Kessler
- Emily Young, in Twilight (novel series)
- Emily Zhang, mother of Frank Zhang in The Heroes of Olympus
- Emily, a non-playable Mii opponent in the Wii series
- List of [Power Rangers Samurai characters#Emily Stewert|Emily], in the Nickelodeon TV series Power Rangers Samurai
- Emily, a.k.a. Miyuki Hoshizora, protagonist of Glitter Force/''Smile PreCure!
- Emily the Emerald Fairy, in the Rainbow Magic book franchise
- Emily the Seraph, a supporting character in the animated series Hazbin Hotel
- Emily the Strange, a cartoon character and merchandising mascot
- See Emily Play'', a song by rock band Pink Floyd,