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Amelia
Pronounced /əˈmiːli.ə/
Rank in 2024
#3
Born in 2024
12,740
Peak year
2021 · #4
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 12,740 girls were named Amelia, about 1 in every 127.
- It peaked in 2021 with 13,032 babies, ranked #4.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 268,334 girls have been named Amelia since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Amelia per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.9Greatest1901–27
- 0.5Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 1.9Gen Z1997–12
- 6.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 19,443 babies, 0.95 per 1,000. Silent: 10,485 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Boomers: 10,041 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,301 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Millennials: 18,368 babies, 0.65 per 1,000. Gen Z: 56,536 babies, 1.95 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 138,080 babies, 6.80 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A variant of Amalia, derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amalą (“vigor, bravery”). For the first element, compare *ammōną (“to bother, irritate”). The name and its variants have been confused with the Latin name Aemilia (whence Emilia, Emily) and the French Aimée (whence Amy).
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /əˈmiːli.ə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Amelia, CC BY-SA 4.0.