Emilly
Feminine · “rival”
Emilly is Emily with an extra l, and it is not a random flourish — it is the Brazilian spelling. Brazil took Emily from English, respelled it to fit Portuguese reading habits, and gave it to a great many daughters.
How old is the name Emilly?
Emilly first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Emilly alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,400 people named Emilly are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emilly most popular?
Emilly peaked in 2003, reaching #2393 nationally. Today it ranks #2859, 466 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Aemilius to Emilly
The story of Emilly
Aemilius was one of the older patrician families of Rome, and the feminine Aemilia gave every European language a version — Emilia in Italian and Spanish, Émilie in French, Emily in English. English use was thin until the eighteenth century and then very heavy. Brazil adopted the English form in the late twentieth century and respelled it: Emilly, Emylly and Emyle all appear in Brazilian records, where doubling a consonant is a common way to mark a borrowed name as one's own. It reaches United States records with Brazilian families.
Meaning
rival; striving to equal
Emily comes from the Roman family name Aemilius, which is generally traced to aemulus, 'rival, emulous, striving to match'. The sense is competitive rather than hostile — the word behind the English emulate. The reading is widely accepted, though like most Roman gens names it is not beyond argument. The doubled l is a Portuguese spelling convention and changes nothing.
How the name formed
- Aemilius
- Aemilia
- Emily
- Emilly
Related forms: Emily · Emilia · Émilie · Emília · Emilie
Pronouncing Emilly
eh-MEE-lee
Three syllables. Portuguese puts the stress in the middle and gives the first vowel a fuller e; English says EM-uh-lee with the stress at the front. Both are heard in American use and the doubled l changes neither.
Nicknames for Emilly
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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 200369 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2393reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- +51.3%59 in 2025, from 39
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.
Emilly in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emily in English — spelling variant
- Emilia in Italian — same name
- Émilie in French — same name
- Emília in Portuguese — same name
- Emilie in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Massachusetts, Texas, New Jersey.
Emillys among us
people named Emilly are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 27,242 born in 2025 was named Emilly
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Emilly
- #2859
- Emilly on the 2025 chart
- #37
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Emilly went to 59 girls in 2025, but Emily and Emili are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 5,556, which makes it the 37th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,822 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 289 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 27,242 for Emilly 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 Sharyon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emilly's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sharyon climbed just as high around 1946, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sharyon's path sketches the road Emilly is walking now.
Emilly 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
Where Emilly is headed
Emilly looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 32% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Emilly beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emilly in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Belongs to one of the most widely used name families in the Western world.
- Emi, Milly and Em are three ready short forms in different registers.
- Recognized at sight everywhere, whatever the spelling.
- Emily is overwhelmingly the standard English spelling and this one will be corrected for life.
- The stress falls differently in Portuguese and English, so the child will hear two versions.
- Emilly, Emily, Emilie and Emely are all in use and get confused constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emillys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Emilly are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Emilly?
- Emilly is one of 3 recorded spellings. Emily is the more common one — 5,451 births in 2025 against 59 for Emilly.
- How popular is the name Emilly in 2025?
- Emilly ranks #2859 among US girl names in 2025, with 59 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emilly?
- About 1 in every 27,242 US girls born in 2025 was named Emilly — 59 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emilly with classmates?
- Emilly will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Emilly
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