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Emily

Barely 3,000 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one, yet the name is climbing: more girls got it last year than in seasons past. Latin at root, it means "rival", and it's only ever given to daughters.

Emily Pronunciation

Emily is pronounced e-MEE-lih (/ɛˈmilɨ/).

Alive in 2025
3,046
Newborns 2025
71
National rank
#585

What Emily means

Where Emily comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Emily descends from the Latin family name Aemilius, a clan name from the Roman world. Behind it sits the adjective aemulus, meaning rival, or one who strives to match another. That is where the streak of ambition comes from. The short meaning given to Emily, rival, points back to this old idea of striving rather than to any tale of quarrel.

English readers met the name most memorably through its writers. Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights in 1847. Emily Dickinson filled a room in Massachusetts with poems that almost no one read while she lived. Both women carried a name built on striving, and both pushed hard at the limits their circumstances set.

On a Polish class register today, Emily sits among names borrowed from English. A teacher reads it out. The spelling stays foreign, the ending clipped and short.

The name keeps no Polish diminutive of its own, no softened form to slip into. What it keeps is the Latin root and its blunt gloss: rival, ambitious.

How many people are named Emily

1 in 7401 women in Poland is named Emily. 3,046 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #585 among female names.

People with the name Emily 2019 → 2025
3,046 +1,272 since 2019
2020 1,903 +129
2021 2,073 +170
2022 2,288 +215
2023 2,542 +254
2024 2,777 +235
2025 3,046 +269

Emily's popularity over time

71 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #290 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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71 newborns with the name Emily in 2025
national rank #290 that year

Where Emily is most popular

Emily is most popular in Opole, 109% above the national average (15 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+60%) and Lubusz (+55%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Łódź, 80% and 75% below average respectively.

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Emily as a middle name

Emily is a first name for 3,046 women in Poland and a middle name for another 574, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 301st, between Veronica (584) and Margaret (565).

As a first name
3,046
As a middle name
574
first name 84% middle name 16%
Middle-name ranking women

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