What era do you think of more when you hear the name Emily, the late 1800s/early 1900s or the second wave of popularity in the 1990s/2000s?

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Even though emily statistically had the most popularity in the 90s/2000s, 100 years earlier it was also used a fair amount, albeit it wasn’t in top 5 popular in the 1900s but it was a well known name. Emily fell out of the top 100 in the 1920s, joined again the in 70s and reached its peak as the top name in the late 90s/early 2000s.It’s definitely classic but it fell out of favour for a very long time before being rediscovered.

There’s alot of names with a similar generation cycle to Emily like Olivia, Isabella, Lily etc which had fallen out of favour and were seen as old fashioned but then get popular again with parents who didn’t know people with those names when they were kids so it sounded fresh to them.

So it got me wondering what era of Emily do people think of most in 2025 when they hear the name. The Victorian days of the name Emily being in use or Emily’s second wave of popularity as the top name from the late 90s into the 00s?

I just think of it as a normal, popular name. Same with Olivia and Isabelle/Isabella. I teach in a girls' school and there are lots of Emilys, Isabelles and Olivias and always have been in my 40 years of teaching. I don't think of them as historical or old-fashioned names at all.

It’s been popular for decades so I don’t think of it as a particularly Victorian name, more as a general classic.

I think of Emily of New Moon (by LM Montgomery, who wrote Anne of Green Gables) -- so late Victorian or Edwardian times. But I think 'Emily' is timeless, and a lovely name.

Emily seems to pop up in discussion often. Must still be a popular choice. It just reminds me of Emily in the earlier seasons of Friends tbh, so 1990s.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/baby_names/5333645-was-emily-a-posh-name-before-it-became-popular-in-the-90s00s

We were at soft play last week and there were only three other children there- two Emily's and an Emilia, all under 4.

It had a definite moment in the 90s/00s but hasn't really gone away.

I think of it as a very classic name - I know/knew one born in the early 1900s, the early 1980s, the early 2000s, and there's one in my six year old son's class.

My first association is with Bagpuss, then Emily Brontë and Emily Bishop from Coronation Street.

I think of it as a classic English name.

It's a kitchen maids name. It's not awful but rather twee.

I think of the early 2000s.
Only because that’s when my boys were born and they went to nursery and school with millions (slight exaggeration) of Emilys.