Emilie
Meaning
variant of Emily/Amelia; industrious, striving
Emilie around the world
One shared root links 7 names across 4 languages.
Shared root: from the Roman family name Aemilius, traditionally glossed "rival"; kept firmly apart from lookalike Amelia by the reference books, if not by parents
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Emilie peaked in the 1990s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
1,255 people · the #7,115 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 166,667 · median age 16
Among people named Emilie living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 86 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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