Amalia
Amalia reached its high-water mark in 2023 at number 528, and has been recorded 16,478 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 566th. About 13,000 Amalias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Amalia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,478
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 528th
- Rank in 2025
- 566th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Amalias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,478 babies given the name since 1880, about 13,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 7,200 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Amalias
- Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange (born 2003)heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Amália Rodrigues (1920–1999)Portuguese recording artist, fado singer, actress
- Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673–1742)Holy Roman Empress consort
- Amalia of Oldenburg (1818–1875)Queen of Greece
- Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602–1675)Regent of Orange
- Amalia Lindegren (1814–1891)Swedish artist
- Maria Amalia of Courland (1653–1711)Princess of Courland by birth, and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel
- Infanta Amalia of Spain (1834–1905)Spanish infanta of the XIXth century, married to prince Adalbert of Bavaria
People named Amalia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Amalia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Amalia is most concentrated in New Mexico (3.7×), Texas (2.9×), Arizona (2.4×), California (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular girls’ names the year Amalia peaked:
Amalia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Amalia +2 spellings | 4,940 | 134th |
| Italy girls | Amalia | 2,732 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Amalia | 1,602 | 367th |
| Belgium girls | Amalia | 1,195 | 107th |
| Switzerland girls | Amalia +1 spelling | 956 | 71st |
| Norway girls | Amalia | 217 | 324th |
| Poland girls | Amalia +1 spelling | 113 birth registrations | 332nd |
| Ireland girls | Amalia | 98 | 404th |
| Scotland girls | Amalia | 40 | 485th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Amalia | 3 | 439th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Amalia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Amalia | 617 | 0.050% | 69th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Amália | 36 | 0.003% | 642nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Amalia | 242 | 0.056% | 116th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Amália | 26 | 0.006% | 337th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Amalia | 31 | 0.048% | 64th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Amalia | 4 | 0.108% | 1st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Amalia is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.09% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Amalia: rank by region
In 2025, Amalia was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Amalia | 134 | 42 |
| Wallonia | Amalia | 90 | 27 |
| Brussels | Amalia | 132 | 8 |
In 2019, Amalia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Amalia | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Amalia was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Amalia | 209 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Amalia appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (80th), Province of Liège (84th), Province of East Flanders (98th), Province of West Flanders (120th), Brussels-Capital Region (132nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (147th) and Province of Antwerp (160th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Amalia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 428 | 18th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Amalia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Amalia +1 spelling | 1,000 | 6,305 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 6,305 who carry it, 1,000 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Amalia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 22,174 women called Amalia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badajoz | Amalia | 600 | 1.781 | 125 |
| Almería | Amalia | 607 | 1.609 | 101 |
| Córdoba | Amalia | 598 | 1.513 | 127 |
| Granada | Amalia | 724 | 1.506 | 122 |
| Sevilla | Amalia | 1,440 | 1.421 | 135 |
| Ourense | Amalia | 215 | 1.355 | 138 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Amalia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.