The name Emil, Emile, or Émile is a male given name of Indo-European origin.
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The name Emil, Emile, or Émile is a male given name of Indo-European origin.
This name has multiple meanings: laborious, rival, or eager, which are derived from the Latin Aemilius of the gens Aemilia. 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. The female equivalents to the name are Emila, Emilia, and Emily.
In the Balkans, Emil is popular among Bosniaks in the former Yugoslav nations. In this region, it is used as a male given name, while the female equivalent is Emila. 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.
In Azerbaijan, Emil is also a popular name. As per official statistics shared by Ministry of Justice (Azerbaijan), Emil was 31st most used name in the country between 2020 and 2025.
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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 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 Ernst (1889–1942), German astronomer
Emil Ferris (born 1962), American writer, cartoonist, and designer
Emil Fischer (1852–1919), German chemist
Emil Fischer (American football executive) (1887–1958), American businessman and football executive
Emil Fischer (bass) (1838–1914), German opera singer
Emil Fischer (cartographer) (1838–1898), American cartographer
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
Emil Hácha (1872–1945), president of Czechoslovakia
Emil Hedvall (born 1983), Swedish footballer
Emil G. Hirsch (1852–1923), American rabbi
Emil Janel (1897–1981), Swedish artist
Emil Jannings (1884–1950), German actor
Emil Johansson (boxer) (1907–1986), Swedish boxer
Emil Johansson (floorball) (born 1992), Swedish floorball player
Emil Johansson (footballer) (born 1986), Swedish footballer
Emil Johansson (ice hockey) (born 1996), Swedish ice hockey player
Emil Johansson (sprinter) (born 2002), Swedish sprinter
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 Kornvig (born 2000), Danish footballer
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 Páleš (born 1966), Slovak scientist and philosopher
Emil Paul Tscherrig (1947–2026), Swiss Catholic priest, diplomat of the Holy See
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 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
Emile Abraham (born 1974), Trinidad and Tobago cyclist
Emile Acquah (born 2000), English footballer
Emile Andze Andze, Cameroonian politician
Emile Anner (born 1940), Swiss boxer
Emile de Antonio (1919–1989), American film director
Emile Nguza Arao, Kenyan aviator and corporate executive
Emile Ardolino (1943–1993), American director and producer
Emile Bakale (born 1987), Swimmer from Republic of the Congo
Emile Barnes (1892–1970), American jazz musician
Emile Baron (born 1979), South African footballer
Emile Barron (1937–2015), Surinamese footballer
Emile Béaruné (born 1990), New Caledonian footballer
Emile Beaulieu (1931–2016), American politician, twice Mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire
Emile Berliner (1851–1929), German-born American inventor
Emile Zola Berman (1902–1981), American lawyer
Emile Bernheim (1886–1985), Belgian industrialist
Emile De Beukelaer (1867–1922), Belgian cyclist
Émile
Émile Abonnenc (1905–1989), Soft redirect to Wikispecies
Émile Achard (1860–1944), French internist
Émile Acollas (1826–1891), French jurist
Émile Aillaud (1902–1988), French architect
Émile Albert (1822–1865), French composer and pianist
Émile Albrecht (1897–1927), Swiss rower
Émile Ali-Khan (born 1902), French sprinter
Émile Allais (1912–2012), French alpine skier
Émile Allegret (1907–1990), French soldier and member of the French Resistance
Émile Amagat (1841–1915), French physicist
Émile Amann (1880–1948), French historian
Émile Amélineau (1850–1915), French archaeologist
Émile Amoros (born 1995), French sailor
Émile André (1871–1933), French artist and architect
Émile Andrieu (1881–1955), Belgian footballer
Émile Antonio (1928–2022), French footballer
Émile Appay (1876–1935), French painter
Émile Arbogast (1901–1978), French swimmer
Fictional characters
Emil Eagle, a villain in the Disney comics' Donald Duck universe
Emil Skoda (Law & Order), M.D., on the TV crime dramas Law & Order
Emil Svensson, title character of the children's book series Emil in Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren
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Emile Boeres (1890–1944), Composer and musician
Emile Kellogg Boisot (1859–1941), American banker
Emile Bongeli (born 1952), Congolese politician
Emile Boreo (1885–1951), American actor
Emile Boulpaep (born 1938), Belgian physiologist
Emile Boustany (1909–2002), Lebanese military officer
Emile Brichard (1899–2004), Belgian cyclist
Emile Burns (1889–1972), British communist and author
Emile Bustani (1907–1963), Lebanese entrepreneur and politician
Emile Cairess (born 1997), British long-distance runner
Emile Calmes (born 1954), Luxembourgish politician
Emile Capgras (1926–2014), Martinican politician
Emile Capouya (1925–2005), American writer
Emile Pierre Joseph De Cauwer (1828–1873), Belgian architectural painter
Emile Chabal, British historian
Emile Christian (1895–1973), American jazz trombonist
Emile Claus (1849–1924), Belgian painter
Emile Clement (1844–1928), German ethnographer and collector
Emile Czaja (1909–1970), Australian-Indian wrestler and actor
Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger (1866–1939), French-born British merchant banker
Emile Daems (1938–2024), Belgian cyclist
Emile Dechaineux (1902–1944), Royal Australian Navy officer
Emile Decroix (1904–1967), Belgian cyclist
Emile Degelin (1926–2017), Belgian film director and novelist
Emile Deleau Jr. (1923–1945), United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Emile Despres (1909–1973), American economist and professor
Emile Destombes (1935–2016), French Roman Catholic bishop
Emile Detiege (born c. 1840), American politician
Emile Diatta, Senegalese politician
Emile Doumba (born 1944), Gabonese politician
Emile Duprée (1936–2023), Canadian professional wrestler and promoter
Emile Duson (1904–1942), Dutch field hockey player
Emile Eicher (born 1955), Luxembourgish politician
Emile Eid (1925–2009), Lebanese bishop
Chris Emile, American dancer
Jonathan Emile (born 1986), Jamaican-Canadian rapper, singer and record producer