Given name

Emīls

Emīls is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Latvian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Emīls comes from Latin.

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How it developed

From Latin Aemilius.

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Emīls’s family of names

In Latvian usage, Emīls has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Emil.

Walk Emīls’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Emīls

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Latin

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No U.S. birth series

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Latin

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No U.S. birth series

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Latin

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Latin

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No U.S. birth series

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Ancient Greek

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Germanic · Nature

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“ash tree; spear”

No U.S. birth series

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Latin

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Latin

Emílio

“worker”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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