Emily: Difference between revisions – Wikipedia

Emily is a feminine given name derived from the Roman family name “Aemilius“, and is the feminine form of the name Emil.^[1]

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]

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.^[4]

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 Barclay (born 1984), New Zealand actress
• Emily Beecham (born 1984), English actress
• Emily Blunt (born 1983), English actress
• Emily Booth (born 1976), English actress and TV presenter
• Emily Browning (born 1988), Australian actress
• Emily Burnett (born 1996), Welsh actress
• Emily Coutts (born 1989), Canadian actress
• Emily Deschanel (born 1976), American actress
• Emily Gimmel (born 1984), American journalist and TV personality
• Emily Hampshire (born 1981), Canadian actress
• Emily Joyce (born 1969), British actress
• Emily Kagan (born 1981), American mixed martial artist
• Emily Kinney (born 1985), American actress, singer, and songwriter
• Emily Lloyd (born 1970), British actress
• Emily Lloyd-Saini, British actress, broadcaster, writer and comedian
• Emily Mortimer (born 1971), English actress
• Emily Osment (born 1992), American actress and singer
• Emily Perkins (born 1977), Canadian actress
• Emily Procter (born 1968), American actress
• Emily Ratajkowski (born 1991), American actress
• Emily Bett Rickards (born 1991), Canadian actress
• Emily Robins (born 1989), New Zealand actress
• Emily Rose (actress) (born 1981), American actress
• Emily Rutherfurd (born 1974), American actress
• Emily or Emma Stone (born 1988), American actress
• Emily Vacchiano, American actress
• Emily VanCamp (born 1986), Canadian actress
• Emily Watson (born 1967), English actress

• Emily Armstrong (born 1986), American singer
• Emily Bauer (born 1981), American singer
• Emily Haines (born 1974), Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter
• Emily Magee (born 1968), American soprano
• Emily Nokes, American writer, artist, music critic and musician
• Emily Remler (1957–1990), American jazz guitarist
• Emily Robison (born 1972), American songwriter
• Emily Saliers (born 1963), American singer-songwriter
• Emily Smith (singer) (born 1981), Scottish folk singer
• Emily Wong (born 1990), Chinese singer and actress

• Emily Asquith (born 2003), English boxer
• Emily Bessoir (born 2001), German basketball player
• Emily Clark (born 1995), Canadian ice hockey player
• Emily Cross (born 1986), American foil fencer
• Emily Csikos (born 1988), Canadian water polo player
• Emily van Egmond (born 1993), Australian footballer
• Emily Gielnik (born 1992), Australian footballer
• Emily Gillam (born 1977), New Zealand field hockey player
• Emily Hallifax (born 2005), French diver
• Emily Hughes (born 1989), American figure skater
• Emily Jacobson (born 1985), American saber fencer
• Emily Jing (born 2007), American foil fencer
• Emily Kukors (born 1985), American swimmer
• Emily LeSueur (born 1972), American synchronized swimmer
• Emily Oberst (born 1998), American wheelchair basketball player
• Emily Samuelson (born 1990), American figure skater
• Emily Seebohm (born 1992), Australian swimmer
• Emily Silver (born 1985), American swimmer
• Emily Hood Westacott (1910–1980), Australian tennis player
• Emily Westwood (born 1984), English football player
• Emily Whitehead (born 2000), Australian artistic gymnast

• Emily Barton (born 1969), American novelist
• Emily Bazelon (born 1971), American journalist
• Emily Lucas Blackall (1832–1892), American writer, philanthropist
• Emily St. John Bouton (1837–1927), American educator, journalist, author, editor
• Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist, author of Wuthering Heights
• Emily Carr (1871–1945), Canadian artist and writer
• Emily Thornton Charles (1845–1895), American poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper founder
• Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet
• Emily Steele Elliott (1836–1897), English religious writer
• Emily Gerard (1849–1905), Scottish author
• Emily Goodrich Smith (1830–1903), American newspaper correspondent
• Emily Gravett (born 1972), British children’s author and illustrator
• Emily Jashinsky, American journalist
• Emily Lowe (died 1882), British travel writer
• Emily Arnold McCully (born 1939), American children’s author
• Emily Julian McManus (1865–1918), Canadian poet, author, and educator
• Emily Mkamanga (1949–2021), Malawian writer and social commentator
• Emily Cheney Neville (1919–1997), American author
• Emily Sullivan Oakey (1829–1883), American educator, author, poet, hymnist
• Emily Rebecca Page (1823–1908), American poet
• Emily Augusta Patmore (1824–1862),British author, Pre-Raphaelite muse, inspiration for poem The Angel in the House.
• Emily Perkins (novelist) (born 1970), New Zealand author
• Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827–1890), Welsh poet, philanthropist
• Emily Post (1872–1960), American author on etiquette
• Emily Prager, American author and journalist
• Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan (1839–1916), American author, journalist
• Emily Smith (author), British children’s author
• Emily Elizabeth Veeder (1841–1898), American author

• Emily Ayckbowm (1836–1900), English founder of the Community of the Sisters of the Church
• Emily Bisharat (died 2004), Jordanian suffragette, philanthropist, and the first female lawyer in the Kingdom of Jordan
• Emily Blackwell (1826–1910), American academic
• Emily Blathwayt (1852–1940), British suffragette, mother of Mary Blathwayt
• Emily Rose Bleby (1849–1917), Jamaican-born British temperance reformer
• Emily Brooke (born 1985), British inventor
• Emmelia of Caesarea or Saint Emily (died 375), mother of Basil the Great
• Emily Callaway (fl.2022), American politician
• Emily Carmichael (born 1981), American film director, screenwriter, and animator
• Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909), American suffragist, activist, writer
• Emily M. J. Cooley (1831–1917), American religious and temperance leader
• Emily Davison (1872–1913), British suffragette
• Emily Dievendorf, American politician
• Emily Donelson (1807–1836), daughter-in-law of and First Lady under Andrew Jackson
• Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American academic, pacifist and Nobel Laureate
• Emily Harris, terrorist with the Symbionese Liberation Army
• Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926), British welfare campaigner
• Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin (1838–1907), American temperance reformer
• Emily Pangnerk Illuitok (1943–2012), Inuk artist
• Emily Jones (2013–2020), English murder victim
• Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910–1996), indigenous Australian artist
• Emily L. Loveridge (1860–1941), American nurse, educator, school founder, and hospital superintendent
• Emily Waita Macharia (born 1979), Kenyan public relations officer
• Emily MacManus CBE (1886-1978), Matron Bristol Royal Infirmary then Guy’s Hospital and President Royal College of Nursing
• Emily Nelson Ritchie McLean (1859–1916), American civic leader
• Emily Morse (born 1970), American sex therapist, author, and media personality
• Emily Murphy (1868–1933), Canadian feminist
• Emily Pankhurst (1858–1928), English political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement
• Emily Austin Perry (1795–1851), Texas historical figure
• Emily McGary Selinger (1848–1927), American painter, writer, poet, educator
• Emily Shenkl (1910–1996), a leader in the Indian Independence Movement
• Emily Sherwin, American law professor
• Emily Pitts Stevens (1841–1906), American educator, activist, editor, publisher
• Emily Taylor (1795–1872), English schoolmistress, poet, children’s writer, hymnwriter
• Emily Vontz (born 2000), German politician
• Emily Waheneka (1919–2008), Native American artist
• Emily Wong (born 1992), known as Emi Wong, Hong Kong YouTuber who makes fitness, lifestyle, and travelling videos
• Emily Kathryn Wyant (1897–1942), American mathematician
• Emily Young (born 1951), British sculptor
• Emily Young (film director) (born 1970), English film director and screenwriter
• Sagufta Yasmin Emily, Bangladesh Awami League politician and Member of Parliament

• 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 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,