Emiliya
A Latin name meaning "rival" or "one who emulates", a spelling variant of Emilia. In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 500 women carry it, and the handful of newborns each year is thinning rather than growing.
Emiliya Pronunciation
Emiliya is pronounced e-meel-YIH-ah (/ɛmilˈjɨa/).
What Emiliya means
Where Emiliya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Emiliya reaches back to the Roman family name Aemilius, a Latin root that seeded a whole cluster of European names. The short meaning attached to it is "rival," someone who emulates and strives to match. That reading sits close to the Polish sense, rywalizująca and ambitna.
The name travels in good company. Its plain variant is Emilia, the diminutive Emilka softens it for a small child, and the masculine Emil draws on the same Latin stem. A family can move among all four without leaving the root behind.
Emiliya is short. On a Polish class register it would stand beside a few Emilias and Emilkas, close cousins that read almost the same. The spelling with a "y" keeps a faintly Eastern colour, common where Slavic transliteration prefers the softer ending.
None of this settles a single trait on the girl who carries it. What the name offers is old and specific: a Latin family name meaning rival, with Emilia, Emilka, and Emil waiting alongside it.
How many people are named Emiliya
1 in 50889 women in Poland is named Emiliya. 443 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1405 among female names.
Emiliya's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Emiliya is most popular
Emiliya is most popular in West Pomeranian, 1180% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+205%).
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+1180%
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Masovian2 girls born+205%
Emiliya as a middle name
Emiliya is a first name for 443 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4080th, between Emelia (4) and Emna (4).
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#4078 Eman4
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#4079 Emelia4
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#4080 Emiliya4
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#4081 Emna4
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#4082 Ermioni4