Emil

English

Etymology

From German Emil, from Latin Aemilius, a Roman family name possibly from aemulus (“rival”). Cognate with French Émile.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Emil

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • 2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez, Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 March 2025:

     Homan, who was on the ground in Chicago, maintained it was a “criminal operation.” Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was also in Chicago on Sunday to observe immigration enforcement operations.

Usage notes

• Like Emile, occasionally used in English since the nineteenth century.
• The feminine form Emily has always been more established and popular.

Translations

male given name

• Bulgarian: Еми́л m (Emíl)
• Catalan: Emili (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃米爾 / 埃米尔 (zh) (Āimǐ'er)

• Corsican: Emiliu m
• Czech: Emil (cs) m
• Danish: Emil c
• Dutch: Emiel (nl)
• Faroese: Emil m
• Finnish: Eemeli (fi)
• French: Émile (fr) m
• Galician: Emilio (gl) m
• German: Emil (de) m
• Greek: Αιμίλιος (el) m (Aimílios)
• Hebrew: אמיל (he) m (emil)
• Hungarian: Emil (hu)
• Icelandic: Emil (is) m
• Italian: Emilio (it) m
• Latvian: Emīls m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Emil (no) m

  Nynorsk: Emil m

• Polish: Emil (pl) m
• Portuguese: Emílio (pt) m
• Romanian: Emil (ro) m
• Russian: Эми́ль (ru) m (Emílʹ)
• Spanish: Emilio (es) m
• Swedish: Emil (sv) c

Further reading

• Emil (given name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Elmi, lime, mile, elim, Elim, Liem, Lemi, Meli, Imel, Mile

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛmɪl]

Proper noun

Emil m anim

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Declension

Declension of Emil (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Emil	Emilové
genitive	Emila	Emilů
dative	Emilovi, Emilu	Emilům
accusative	Emila	Emily
vocative	Emile	Emilové
locative	Emilovi, Emilu	Emilech
instrumental	Emilem	Emily

Danish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Aemilius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e̝ˈmiːˀl/

Proper noun

Emil c

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

References

• [2] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 45 096 males with the given name have Emil been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the last frequency peak around 2000 . Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈemil/, [ˈemil]

Proper noun

Emil

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Faroese

Proper noun

Emil m

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Usage notes

Patronymics

• Emil's son: Emilsson
• Emil's daughter: Emilsdóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Emil
accusative	Emil
dative	Emili
genitive	Emils

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈeːmiːl]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Emil m (proper noun, strong, genitive Emils)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛmil]
• Hyphenation: Emil
• Rhymes: -il

Proper noun

Emil

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Emil	Emilek
accusative	Emilt	Emileket
dative	Emilnek	Emileknek
instrumental	Emillel	Emilekkel
causal-final	Emilért	Emilekért
translative	Emillé	Emilekké
terminative	Emilig	Emilekig
essive-formal	Emilként	Emilekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Emilben	Emilekben
superessive	Emilen	Emileken
adessive	Emilnél	Emileknél
illative	Emilbe	Emilekbe
sublative	Emilre	Emilekre
allative	Emilhez	Emilekhez
elative	Emilből	Emilekből
delative	Emilről	Emilekről
ablative	Emiltől	Emilektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	Emilé	Emileké
non-attributive possessive – plural	Emiléi	Emilekéi

Possessive forms of Emil

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Emilem	Emiljeim
2nd person sing.	Emiled	Emiljeid
3rd person sing.	Emilje	Emiljei
1st person plural	Emilünk	Emiljeink
2nd person plural	Emiletek	Emiljeitek
3rd person plural	Emiljük	Emiljeik

Icelandic

Proper noun

Emil m (proper noun, genitive singular Emils)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Declension

Declension of Emil (sg-only masculine)

indefinite singular
nominative	Emil
accusative	Emil
dative	Emil
genitive	Emils

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Emil m

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Emil m

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Aemilius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.mil/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛmil
• Syllabification: E‧mil

Proper noun

Emil m pers (female equivalent Emilia)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Emil

Declension

Declension of Emil

	singular	plural
nominative	Emil	Emilowie
genitive	Emila	Emilów
dative	Emilowi	Emilom
accusative	Emila	Emilów
instrumental	Emilem	Emilami
locative	Emilu	Emilach
vocative	Emilu	Emilowie

Further reading

• “Emil”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Ultimately from the Latin Aemilius, borrowed later or adapted from another language; compare the French Émile and the German Emil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eˈmil]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Emil m (genitive/dative lui Emil, female equivalent Emilia)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil — famously held by:
   1. Emil Racoviță (1868–1947), the Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and explorer of Antarctica who gave his name to the village of Emil Racoviță

Further reading

• Emil on the Romanian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ro
• Emil Racoviță on the Romanian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ro

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emil/, [ˈemil]
• Rhymes: -emil
• Hyphenation: E‧mil

Proper noun

Emil m pers

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Declension

Declension of Emil
(pattern chlap)

	singular	plural
nominative	Emil	Emilovia
genitive	Emila	Emilov
dative	Emilovi	Emilom
accusative	Emila	Emilov
locative	Emilovi	Emiloch
instrumental	Emilom	Emilmi

Derived terms

• Emilo
• Emko
• Emo
• Milko
• Milo
• Miluško

Further reading

• “Emil”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Etymology

From French Émile, from Latin Aemilius. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1741.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːmɪl/

Proper noun

Emil c (genitive Emils)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil

Related terms

• (female names): Emelie, Emilia
• (surnames): Emilsson

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [4] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 48 977 males with the given name Emil living in Sweden on 31 December 2010, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.