Rival, laborious, or eager
Emalina is a rare elaboration of Emily or Emma, likely influenced by the suffix -lina. It combines the Germanic roots for 'work' or 'industrious' with the Latin root for 'rival'.
Less common today
Emalina isn't in the latest US Top 1000. It last peaked at #7,906 in 2015.
A character in the fantasy novel series · The Lumatere Chronicles
US births per 5-year period, 1990–present (SSA data).
