Emily

People will please their fancies, and every lady has her favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. - - - Emily, in which all womanly sweetness seems bound up - perhaps this is the effect of association of ideas - I have known so many charming Emilys

1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names

This may have accounted for Emma's Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily, a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights, so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.

1980, Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves, →ISBN, page 8

Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours — whilst hers was that muted, dusky pink, like bubblegum, like roses —

2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 102

Glossier was founded by Emily Weiss and has developed a cult following.

2017 November 27, Ahiza Garcia, “How these Millennials are fighting for your holiday dollars”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2025

Emily Sisson set a new record for an American woman when she finished second at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon Sunday.

2022 October 10, Nouran Salahieh, “Emily Sisson set a record for US women at the Chicago Marathon”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2022

I admonish my campaign workers to remember EMILY: Early Money Is Like Yeast. Men and women give to institutions, programs, and campaigns that are successful. They give to programs that are popular.

2005, Jerold Panas, Mega Gifts: Who Gives Them, Who Gets Them, page 155

Remember the acronym EMILY: Early Money Is Like Yeast. It grows and grows. The money you put away in your twenties will be a huge pot of gold for your future.

2009, Andrea Syrtash, How to Survive the Real World: Life After College Graduation