Emmelia
Feminine · “melodious”
Emmelia is a Greek name meaning melodious, and it belonged to a woman who produced three bishops and a saint from one household.
How old is the name Emmelia?
Emmelia first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Emmelia is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Emmelia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emmelia most popular?
Emmelia peaked in 2025, reaching #3903 nationally. Today it ranks #3903, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From emmeles to Emmelia
The story of Emmelia
Emmelia of Caesarea, who died about 375, was the mother of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste and Macrina the Younger — an extraordinary concentration of theological talent in one family, and she is honored as a saint in her own right. The name is used in Greek and has been revived in English-speaking countries recently, where it is often taken for a variant of Amelia.
Meaning
melodious, harmonious
From Greek emmeles, in tune or harmonious, built on melos, a song or limb of a melody; the same root gives melody and melisma. The name describes music rather than sweetness.
How the name formed
- emmeles
- Emmelia
Related forms: Emmeleia · Emmelia
Pronouncing Emmelia
eh-MEE-lee-ah
Four syllables with the stress on the second. Greek gives em-meh-LEE-ah.
Nicknames for Emmelia
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 202537 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3903reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +12.1%37 in 2025, from 33
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.
Emmelia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emmeleia in Greek — same name
- Emmelia in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Wisconsin.
Emmelias among us
people named Emmelia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was named Emmelia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Emmelia
- #3903
- Emmelia on the 2025 chart
- #505
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Emmelia went to 37 girls in 2025, but Emelia is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 525, which makes it the 505th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,398 places above the chart.
- Emelia488
- Emmelia37
About 1 girl in 3,061 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 43,440 for Emmelia 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 Saran test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emmelia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Saran climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Saran's path sketches the road Emmelia is walking now.
Emmelia 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 Emmelia is headed
Emmelia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Emmelia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emmelia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Greek meaning with a genuinely musical sense behind it.
- Em and Emmy are both warm short forms in very current use.
- A documented historical figure with a remarkable family behind her.
- It is constantly taken for a variant of Amelia, which is an unrelated name.
- Eight letters and four syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
- Emmelia, Emilia and Amelia are all close and get confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emmelias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Emmelia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Emmelia?
- Emmelia is one of 2 recorded spellings. Emelia is the more common one — 488 births in 2025 against 37 for Emmelia.
- How popular is the name Emmelia in 2025?
- Emmelia ranks #3903 among US girl names in 2025, with 37 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emmelia?
- About 1 in every 43,440 US girls born in 2025 was named Emmelia — 37 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emmelia with classmates?
- Emmelia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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