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I love the name Emily and I know it's been pretty popular over the past few years, but I still love it. Anyway, I was looking at my fave names and their meanings and I saw that Emily (according to this site) means "rival". Now that did put me off the name a little, since I'm very into name meanings, but I just love this name! I've looked at other baby name sites and other ones say that Emily means "industrious" and "admiring". I've also looked Emily up in baby name books, one of them being a rather old book and they too mostly say that Emily means "industrious". Anyway, my question is, What does Emily mean? What is the most common meaning that others have found? Also, if I really love it, should I just consider using it in the future anyway, since "rival" isn't an overly bad meaning?

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Thanks in advance for any comments and help.