Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Emiliya isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Emiliya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 147
- 0 boys · 147 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,233 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −6%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,233 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 6.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 587 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Emiliya’s family of names
In English usage, Emiliya has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Эмилия.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Ameliaequivalent
- Emiliaequivalent
- Emelyequivalent
- Emilieequivalent
- Aemiliaequivalent
- Emilijaequivalent
- Емилијаequivalent
- Emīlijaequivalent
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People named Emiliya
- Emiliya TureyRussian handball playerborn 1984
- EmiliaBulgarian folk and pop singerborn 1982
- Emilia SlabunovaRussian politicianborn 1958
- Emilia YordanovaBulgarian female biathleteborn 1989
- EmanuelaBulgarian pop-folk singerborn 1981
- Emiliya DshingarovaSerbian chess playerborn 1978
- Emilia AnikinaSoviet botanist (1886-1983)
- Emilia MaslarovaBulgarian politicianborn 1949
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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