Emilia

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Emilia is a feminine given name . Name variants are Aemilia , Amelia and Amalia .

Origin and meaning

Emilia is a Romance feminine form of Emilio , originally as Aemilia (also Aemiliana) the feminine form of the Latin noun gentile Aemilius. The Aemilians were one of the five most important patrician families of ancient Rome . The name therefore means "coming from the Aemilians", which in turn is probably derived from the Latin aemulus "rival, competitor", hence also the "zealous" or the "ambitious".

In Germany, numerous girls have only been named Emilia again since 1998.

variants

name day

  • January 5th (St. Aemiliana)
  • March 21st (St. Emilie de Vialar)
  • August 24th (Emilie Schneider, not yet beatified)
  • August 24 (Emilie de Vialar, religious founder, mystic; canonization June 24, 1951)
  • May 3rd (Emilia Bicchieri, founder of the monastery, religious, mystic, Dominican.)

Name bearers

First name

Emilia Clarke

stage name

Fictional character

  • Emilia Galotti , heroine of the civil tragedy of the same name by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • Emilia, character in William Shakespeare's Othello

landscape

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Emilia on behindthename.com (Engl.)
  2. Reiner Burger : Düsseldorf. Capital without saints . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 11, 2012.