Emil (given name)

The name Emil, Emile, or Émile is a male given name of Indo-European origin.

Emil

Gender	Male
Other gender
Feminine	Emila Emilia Emily
Origin
Meaning	Laborious, rival, eager, to strive, to excel
Region of origin	Europe
Other names
Variant form(s)	Emil Émile
Related names	Amil

This name has multiple meanings: laborious, rival, or eager, which are derived from the Latin Aemilius of the gens Aemilia.^[1] In the German language, the name is derived from the word emelen, which means "to strive," or "to excel."

Emil is used predominantly among the peoples of European nations. It is in the top 100 names given to boys in Germany.^[2] The female equivalents to the name are Emila,^[3] Emilia, and Emily.

In the Balkans, Emil is popular among Bosniaks, Croats,^[4] and Serbs in the former Yugoslav nations. In this region, it is used as a male given name, while the female equivalent is Emila. In Serbia, Emil is among the top given names to boys.^[5] In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the name is an alternative variant to the name Amil, which is also popular among Bosniaks. Emil is in the top 100 most popular given names in Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[6]

Among Jews, the name Emil is either a kinui (a substitute name in a non-Jewish environment) for the Hebrew name Emmanuel (Immanuel, Emmanuel, Emmanuel, Manuel, Manuel, Meno, Manyu, Menni, Manush, Old Hebrew עמנו אל - "God with us"), or a Yiddish pronunciation of the Hebrew theophoric name Ammiel (Emmiel) (Hebrew עַמִּיאֵל) (Yiddish עַמִּיאֵל‎ - Emil), which means "God (El) of my people".

Notable people and characters named Emil, Emile or Émile include:

Emil

• Emil Aaltonen (1869–1949), Finnish industrialist and philanthropist
• Emil Andersson (sport shooter) (born 1979), Swedish running target shooter
• Emil Andersson (table tennis) (born 1993), Swedish table tennis player
• Emil Artin (1898–1962), Austrian mathematician
• Emil Atlason (born 1993), Icelandic footballer
• Emil Bachrach (1874–1937), Russian-American entrepreneur
• Emil Barth (1879–1941), German Social Democratic party worker
• Emil von Behring (1854–1917), German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Bemström (born 1999), Swedish ice hockey player
• Emil Berg, Swedish singer
• Emil Berna (1907–2000), Swiss cinematographer
• Emil Boc (born 1966), Romanian politician
• Emil Bove (born c. 1982), American attorney
• Emil Brown (born 1974), American baseball outfielder
• Emil Brunner (1889–1966), Swiss theologian
• Emil Calmanovici (1896–1956), Romanian businessman and communist militant
• Emil Cedercreutz (1879–1949), Finnish sculptor
• Emil Chuprenski (born 1960), Bulgarian boxer
• Emil Cioran (1911–1995), French-Romanian writer
• Emil Constantinescu (born 1939), President of Romania from 1996 to 2000
• Emil Dardak (born 1984), Indonesian politician
• Emil (Fritz) Dietrich (1898–1948), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes
• Emil Dill (1861–1938), Swiss painter
• Emil Dimitriev (born 1979), interim Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
• Emil Dimitrov (1940–2005), Bulgarian singer
• Emil Dorian (1893–1956), Romanian poet and prose writer
• Emil Ekiyor Jr. (born 2000), American football player
• Emil Ferris (born 1962), American writer, cartoonist, and designer
• Emil Fischer (disambiguation), several people
• Emil Fjellström (1884–1944), Swedish actor
• Emil Forsberg (born 1991), Swedish international footballer
• Emil Forselius (1974–2010), Swedish actor
• Emil Gilels (1916–1985), Russian pianist
• Emil Giurgiuca (1906–1992), Romanian poet
• Emil Guillermo (born c. 1959), American journalist, comic monologist
• Emil Hácha (1872–1945), president of Czechoslovakia
• Emil Hedvall (born 1983), Swedish footballer
• Emil Heimberger (1889-1978), American bandleader, violinist and radio personality
• Emil G. Hirsch (1852–1923), American rabbi
• Emil Jannings (1884–1950), German actor
• Emil Johansson (disambiguation), multiple people
• Emil Johnson (born c. 1966), drummer for Black Flag
• Emil Jones (born 1935), American politician, president of the Illinois State Senate
• Emil Jones, III (born 1978), American politician, Illinois Senate member
• Emil Kapaun (1916–1951), Roman Catholic priest, US Army Chaplain who died in the Korean War, US Congressional Medal of Honor in 2013
• Emil Karas (1933–1974), American football linebacker for the San Diego Chargers
• Emil Theodor Kocher (1841–1917), Swiss physician and researcher, received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Kostadinov (born 1967), Bulgarian football player
• Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist
• Emil Krupa-Krupinsky (1872–1924), German portrait painter, genre painter and graphic artist
• Emil Lenz, Russian physicist and creator of Lenz's law
• Emil Lerp (1886–1966), German businessman and inventor
• Emil Lindenfeld (1905–1986), Hungarian-American oil-painter
• Emil Ludwig (1881–1948), German-Swiss biographer
• Emil Mangelsdorff (1925–2022), German jazz musician
• Emil Martinec (born 1958), American theoretical physics professor
• Emil Maurice (1897–1972), founding member of the SS and Hitler's personal chauffeur during the 1920s
• Emil Miljković (born 1988), Bosnian footballer
• Emil Minty (born 1972), Australian former child actor
• Emil Molt (1876–1936), German industrialist, social reformer, and anthroposophist
• Emil Nödtveidt (born 1976), Swedish guitarist in the band Deathstars
• Emil Nolde (1867–1956), German painter and printmaker
• Emil Paleček (1930–2018), Czech biochemist
• Emil Leon Post (1897–1954), American mathematician
• Emil Perttilä (1875–1933), Finnish politician
• Emil Puhl (1889–1962), German Nazi-era economist and banking official
• Emil Rebreanu (died 1917), Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer
• Emil Salim (born 1930), Indonesian politician and economist
• Emil Savundra (1923–1976), British-Tamil businessman convicted of fraud
• Emil Ludwig Schmidt (1837–1906), German anthropologist and ethnologist
• Emil Schult (born 1946), German artist and collaborator with seminal electronic music group Kraftwerk
• Emil Schulz (1938–2010), German boxer
• Emil Seckel (1864–1924), German jurist and law historian
• Emil Sitka (1914–1998), American actor
• Emil Škoda (1839–1900), Czech engineer
• Emil Steinberger (actor), Swiss comedian, writer, director and actor
• Emil Steinberger (endocrinologist), American endocrinologist
• Emil Stoyanov (born 1959), Bulgarian politician
• Emil Sumangil, Filipino journalist
• Emil Szolomajer (born 1974), Romanian soccer player
• Emil Tedeschi (born 1967), Croatian entrepreneur
• Emil Unanue (1934–2022), Cuban immunologist
• Emil Unfried (1892–1949), German communist politician and businessman
• Emil Urbel (born 1959), Estonian architect
• Emil Utitz (1883–1956), Czech philosopher
• Emil "Teddy" Vorster (1910–1976), German racing driver and entrepreneur
• Emil Wakim (born 1998), American comedian
• Emil Werstler, American guitarist for death metal band Dååth
• Emil Wilbekin (born 1967), American journalist
• Emil Wingstedt (born 1975), Swedish orienteering competitor
• Emil Wojtaszek (1927–2017), Polish politician
• Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), Czech long-distance runner
• Emil Zsigmondy (1861–1885), Austrian physician and mountain climber

Emile or Émile

• Emile Abraham (born 1974), Trinidad and Tobago cyclist
• Émile Baudot (1845–1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor
• Émile Bernard (disambiguation), several people
• Émile Bilodeau (born 1996), French Canadian singer-songwriter
• Émile Borel (1871–1956), French mathematician and politician
• Émile Bouchard (1919-2012), French Canadian hockey player
• Émile Camut (1849–1905), French architect
• Émile Charles Baillargeon-Laberge (born 1990), Canadian professional wrestler
• Émile Cohl (1857–1938), French caricaturist and animator
• Emile Diatta, Senegalese politician
• Émile Dufresne (1861–1942), French inventor and engineer
• Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist
• Emile Ford (1937–2016), pop singer born in Saint Lucia
• Émile de Girardin (1802–1881), French politician and journalist
• Emile Griffith (1938–2013), U.S. Virgin Islands boxer
• Emile Habibi (1922–1996), Palestinian-Israeli writer and politician
• Emile Haynie (born 1980), American record producer
• Émile Henry (anarchist) (1872–1894), French anarchist bomber
• Emile Heskey (born 1978), English footballer
• Emile Hirsch (born 1985), American actor
• Emile Kuri (1907–2000), Mexican-born American movie-set decorator
• Émile Lahoud (born 1936), former President of Lebanon
• Emile Lahoud Jr. (born 1975), Lebanese businessman and the son of Émile Lahoud
• Émile Legault (born 2000), Canadian soccer player
• Émile Mallet, Baron of Itapevi (1801–1886), French-Brazilian Marshal
• Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), French Canadian poet
• Émile Poulat, French priest, historian, and sociologist
• Émile Renouf (1845–1894), French painter and draughtsman
• Émile Ripert (1882–1948), French academic, poet, novelist and playwright
• Emile Roemer (born 1962), Dutch politician
• Emile St. Godard (1905–1948), Canadian dog-sled racer
• Emile Santiago (1899–1995), American costume designer
• Émile Servan-Schreiber (1888–1967), French journalist
• Emile Smith Rowe (born 2000), English footballer
• Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915), French composer
• Émile Zola (1840–1902), French novelist and journalist

Fictional characters

• Emile, title character of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile, or On Education
• Emile, a character in Gambit
• Emil Mesmer, a survivor in the video game Identity V
• Emil, an NPC who accompanies the main character in the game Nier
• "Baby" Emile, a character in the film The Principal
• Émile, a character in Ratatouille
• Emile-A239, a Spartan in Halo: Reach
• Emil Antonowsky, a villain in RoboCop
• Emile de Becque, a character in South Pacific
• Emil Bleehall, a character at the Adventurers Club
• Emil Blonsky, alter ego of comic supervillain Abomination
• Dr. Emil Breton, a character in Brian DePalma's Sisters
• Emil Castagnier, main character of the video game Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
• Emile Dufresne, a villain in Splinter Cell: Double Agent
• Emil Eagle, a villain in the Disney comics' Donald Duck universe
• Emil Hupka, a character in Notorious
• Emile Antoon Khadaji, title character of the military science-fiction Matador series
• Sergeant Emile Klinger, a character in North by Northwest
• Emil Kolar, a supporting character in the pilot of The Sopranos
• Dr. Emil Lang from the Robotech animated series
• Emil Muzz, character played by Jack O'Halloran in Dragnet
• Emil Narud, a scientist in StarCraft II
• Dr. Emile Picani, a character in the YouTube series "Cartoon Therapy" created by Thomas Sanders
• Emil Sinclair, the main character in Demian by Hermann Hesse
• Emil Skoda, M.D., a character on the TV crime dramas Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Emil Svensson, title character of the children's book series Emil i Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren
• Emil Tischbein, title character of the children's books Emil and the Detectives and its sequel, Emil und die Drei Zwillinge (Emil and the Three Twins)

See also

• Emil (disambiguation)
• Aemilius (disambiguation)
• Emilio (given name)