"Variant of Emilia"
The name Emilija is commonly a female name from the "Swedish" origin.
Emilija is the South Slavic and Baltic form of Emilia, the feminine of the Latin family name Aemilius, borne by the Roman gens Aemilia. It is the usual spelling of the name in Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Lithuanian and Latvian, where the letter j represents the y sound of the Italian and Spanish forms.
Emilia means "Ambitious, industrious".
The pronunciation of Emilija is eh-MEE-lee-yah.
