Baby name
CLASSIC
🇩🇪 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 Emelie
/EH · meh · lee/
Meaning
“Rival or striving”
Scandinavian spelling of Emily, from Latin Aemilia meaning rival or striving; the -ie ending is the preferred Nordic orthographic form.
Nicknames
emmy
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Classic in Scandinavia; feels clean and enduring rather than trendy.
The cultural moment.
Consistently popular in Sweden and Norway through the 1990s and 2000s.