Emelie

This name is a variant of Amelia and Emilia and derives from two different roots: from Germanic (Gothic) “Amalia” which means “work, effort, strain, diligent.” The Amali, also called Amals or Amalings, were the leading dynasty of the Goths, a Germanic people who confronted the Roman Empire in its declining years in the west. The second root is from Latin “Aemilia,” meaning “imitating, rivaling.” Aimilia was one of the most ancient patrician houses in Rome. The family was said to have originated in the reign of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, and its members held the state’s highest offices from the early decades of the Republic to imperial times.