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Amelie vs Amellia

American parents have registered 9,654 Amelies since 1880, against 855 Amellias. Amelie is still ahead, with 329 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amelie against Amellia, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amelie Amellia

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

Amelie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1886 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Amelie had 9 and Amellia had 9.

Side by side

  Amelie Amellia
Total US births 9,654855
Most in one year 46651
Babies in 2025 32930
Estimated living today 9,400850
Median age today 1211
Peak year 20132017
Best rank 603rd girls3,145th girls
Rank in 2025 827th4,546th
First recorded 18861979
Girls / boys 9,654 / 0855 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Amelie Amellia
France 99,050 Amélie15
England and Wales 18,449155
Scotland 9937
Poland 3024

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: Amelie and Amellia.