Emily

Proper noun

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1380s-1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale I am thy mortal foe, and it am I That so hot loveth Emily the bright, That I would die here present in her sight.
   • 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...
   • 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...