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Ameera vs Amelio

American parents have registered 3,447 Ameeras since 1880, against 614 Amelios. Ameera is still ahead, with 161 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ameera against Amelio, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ameera Amelio

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

Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Ameera for 50 years and Amelio for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ameera Amelio
Total US births 3,447614
Most in one year 17856
Babies in 2025 16156
Estimated living today 3,400440
Median age today 106
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 1,296th girls2,421st boys
Rank in 2025 1,367th2,421st
First recorded 19721912
Girls / boys 3,447 / 00 / 614

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Ameeras alive today are over 10; half the Amelios are over 6. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Ameera Amelio
England and Wales 2,12218
France 3560

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: Ameera and Amelio.