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Amalia vs Amalie

American parents have registered 16,478 Amalias since 1880, against 1,461 Amalies. Amalia is still ahead, with 530 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amalia against Amalie, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amalia Amalie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Amalia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1883, when Amalia had 8 and Amalie had 6.

Side by side

  Amalia Amalie
Total US births 16,4781,461
Most in one year 57657
Babies in 2025 53037
Estimated living today 13,0001,300
Median age today 1616
Peak year 20232011
Best rank 528th girls2,989th girls
Rank in 2025 566th3,903rd
First recorded 18801883
Girls / boys 16,478 / 01,461 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amalia Amalie
Norway 2179,195
France 4,940195
England and Wales 1,6021,057
Poland 1132
Ireland 983
Scotland 4040

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amalia and Amalie.