Emillio
Masculine · “Latin aemulus”
Aemilius was not a first name. It was a Roman clan name, and the clan built a road: the Via Aemilia, laid in 187 BC across northern Italy. The road named the region, Emilia-Romagna, and the region kept the family's name alive two thousand years after the family ended.
How old is the name Emillio?
Emillio first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Emillio alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 500 people named Emillio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emillio most popular?
Emillio peaked in 1990, reaching #3607 nationally. Today it ranks #8910, 5,303 places below that high. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Aemilius to Emillio
The story of Emillio
The Aemilii were one of the oldest patrician families of Rome, and their name is stamped across the map in a way few families manage. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, consul in 187 BC, built the Via Aemilia from Rimini to Piacenza; the road became the spine of the region and gave it the name Emilia, which survives in Emilia-Romagna today. The Basilica Aemilia stood in the Forum. The clan is long extinct and the name outlived it three times over: as a road, as a region, and as one of the most used given names in Italy, Spain and Latin America. The Latin path to a modern first name almost always runs through a saint, but here it runs through infrastructure, which is a genuinely unusual route. Emilia the girl's name is the same word; Amelia, despite the resemblance, is Germanic and unrelated.
Meaningscholars disagree
Latin aemulus, rival or striving
Emillio is a respelling of Emilio, from the Roman gens name Aemilius, usually connected to aemulus, rival or emulous, though like most clan names its origin is not secure. The doubled l is not Italian or Spanish, where the name has one l; Spanish ll is a separate letter with its own sound entirely. The peak of this spelling is 1990.
How the name formed
- Aemilius
- Emilio
- Emillio
Related forms: Emilio · Emilio · Emile · Emilio
Pronouncing Emillio
eh-MEE-lee-oh
Four syllables, stress on the second. In Spanish a doubled l is a different letter said like a y, so this spelling technically reads eh-MEE-yoh to a Spanish speaker.
Nicknames for Emillio
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1918
- Most boys named
- 200524 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3607reached in 1990
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%8 in 2025, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Emillio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emilio in Italian — spelling variant
- Emilio in Spanish — spelling variant
- Emile in French — same name
- Emilio in Portuguese — same name
Emillios among us
people named Emillio are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 213,510 born in 2025 was named Emillio
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Emillio
- #8910
- Emillio on the 2025 chart
- #160
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Emillio went to 8 boys in 2025, but Emilio is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 2,405, which makes it the 160th most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,750 places above the chart.
- Emilio2,397
- Emillio8
About 1 boy in 710 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 213,510 for Emillio itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Wagner test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emillio's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Wagner climbed just as high around 1964, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Wagner's path sketches the road Emillio is walking now.
Emillio sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Emillio beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emillio in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Milo works as a short form and is a name in its own right.
- The name is standard across Italy, Spain and Latin America.
- It has a documented history from the Roman republic onward.
- Emilio with one l is the standard spelling everywhere it is native.
- The doubled l changes the sound for Spanish readers.
- Four syllables is long for English-language settings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emillios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Emillio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Emillio?
- Emillio is one of 2 recorded spellings. Emilio is the more common one — 2,397 births in 2025 against 8 for Emillio.
- How popular is the name Emillio in 2025?
- Emillio ranks #8910 among US boy names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emillio?
- About 1 in every 213,510 US boys born in 2025 was named Emillio — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emillio with classmates?
- Emillio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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