Given name & surname · also Latin Aemilius
Émile
“rival”
Émile is a masculine given name from Latin Aemilius. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Émile goes back to Latin Aemilius, meaning “rival.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Émile comes from Latin Aemilius, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Émile’s family of names
In French usage, Émile as a surname has a diminutive in MILLET. In French usage, Émile shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Emilio. In French usage, Émile has a conventional equivalent in the German form Emil.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Émile has relatives in 22 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
17 related names in 22 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 20
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Émile
- Émile ZolaFrench novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
- Émile DurkheimFrench sociologist (1858–1917)
- André MauroisFrench author (1885–1967)
- Émile VerhaerenBelgian poet (1855-1916)
- Émile Loubet8th president of France (1838–1929)
- Émile BernardFrench painter (1868-1941)
- Émile ClapeyronFrench physicist (1799-1864)
- AlainFrench philosopher (1868–1951)
- Émile Lahoud11th President of Lebanonborn 1936
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