Emily

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.^[2] It has declined in usage in some countries but has remained a well-used name all over the world.^[1] In 2022, it was the 31st most popular name given to girls in Canada.^[3]

In the English-speaking world, the name Emily first became popular thanks to German-born Princess Amelia of Great Britain, who was called Emily in English.^[4]

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.^[5]

Alternate forms include:

• Aemilia (Latin)
• Aemiliana (Latin)
• Aemilianus (Latin)
• Aemilius (Latin)
• Aimil (Scottish Gaelic)
• Aimilios (Greek)
• Aimilia (Greek)
• Ái My (Vietnamese)
• Amilia (English)
• Eemeli (Finnish)
• Eemi (Finnish)
• Eemil (Finnish)
• Eimíle (Irish)
• Emalee (English)
• Emelie (Swedish)
• Emiel (Dutch)
• Emily (English)
• Emil (Bulgarian), (Croatian), (Czech), (Danish), (English), (German), (Hungarian), (Icelandic), (Indonesian), (Macedonian), (Norwegian), (Polish), (Romanian), (Russian), (Serbian), (Slovak), (Slovene), (Swedish)
• Émile (French)
• Emilee (English)
• Emili (Catalan)
• Emili (Hebrew), (Hungarian)
• Emília (Hungarian), (Portuguese), (Slovak)
• Emilía (Icelandic)
• Emilia (Bulgarian), (Danish), (English), (Finnish), (German), (Indonesian), (Italian), (Norwegian), (Polish), (Romanian), (Spanish), (Swedish)
• Emilian (Polish), (Romanian)
• Emiliana (Italian), Indonesian, (Portuguese), (Spanish)
• Emiliano (Italian), (Spanish)
• Émilie (French)
• Emílie (Czech)
• Emilie (Danish), (German), (Norwegian), (Swedish)
• Émilien (French)
• Émilienne (French)
• Emīlija (Latvian)
• Emilija (Croatian), (Lithuanian), (Macedonian), (Serbian), (Slovene)
• Emílio (Portuguese)
• Emilio (Italian), (Spanish)
• Emilios (Greek)
• Emilis (Lithuanian)
• Emiliya (Bulgarian)
• Emīlija (Latvian)
• Emlyn (Welsh)
• Emmi (Finnish)
• Emmie (English)
• Emmy (English), (French), (Indonesian)
• Emiri/えみり(Japanese)
• Emy (French), (Indonesian)
• Milja (Finnish)
• Mille (Danish), (Norwegian), (Swedish)
• Millie (English)
• Milly (English), (Indonesian), (Norwegian), (Swedish)
• Yemelyan (Russian)

• Emily (Emelye), 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
• 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 Charlton, a character in both the novel and the film in The Devil Wears Prada
• 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
• 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
• 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,

• Amelia (given name)
• Emil (given name)
• Emilee (given name)
• Emilia (given name)
• Émilie, a French feminine given name
• Emilie Meng (1998–2016), Danish teenager who was murdered
• Emilio (given name)
• Emma (given name)