Emiel
Emiel was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,988 among boys’ names; 110 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emiel mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Emiel is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil” Its etymology gives the sense “rival” (aemulus).
From Latin Aemilius, a Roman family name possibly from aemulus (“rival”). Cognate with French Émile.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emiel?
#9,988 among boys’ names, 2025
Emiel entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,988 in 2025.
11 babies in 1921, the peak
Emiel peaked in 1921, when 11 boys were given it, #2,683 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,988 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,694 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,598 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,626 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,211 | 2.6 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,390 | 6.1 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,167 | 4.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,016 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,815 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,331 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 11 | #2,683 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,962 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,355 | 5.1 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,677 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 8 | #2,996 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,527 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,010 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Emiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emiel, and how old are they?
An estimated 27 Americans named Emiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 158 people named Emiel (4 women and girls, 154 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 33,340 babies since 1880, Emiel is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 162 babies (4.3%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Emiel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Emiel and names like it
- Compare Emiel and EmilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEmiel peaked in 1921.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Emiel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Emiel.
- Names starting with EMost given first.