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Amalia vs Amaury

American parents have registered 16,478 Amalias since 1880, against 1,472 Amaurys. Amalia is still ahead, with 530 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amalia Amaury

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 2009, when Amalia had 243 and Amaury had 81.

Side by side

  Amalia Amaury
Total US births 16,4781,472
Most in one year 57681
Babies in 2025 53023
Estimated living today 13,0001,400
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20232009
Best rank 528th girls1,825th boys
Rank in 2025 566th4,396th
First recorded 18801966
Girls / boys 16,478 / 05 / 1,467

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 Amaury
France 4,94021,035
Belgium 1,1951,521
England and Wales 1,60227
Switzerland 956148

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 Amaury.