Amelia

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Amelia boys named Amelia

By the numbers

Total US births

281,414

Estimated living today

243,000

Median age today

9

Peak year

2021

Best rank

4th

Rank in 2025

4th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

281,130 / 284

How old the living Amelias are

born that year still alive today

Of the 281,414 babies given the name since 1880, about 243,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 178,000 of them are children and 9,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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 Amelias

• Amelia Earhart (1897–1939)American aviation pioneer and author
• Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894)Women's rights activist
• Amelia Vega (born 1984)Dominican model and Miss Universe 2003
• Princess Amelia of Great Britain (1711–1786)Princess of Great Britain
• Amelia Edwards (1831–1892)English novelist, journalist, traveller and egyptologist
• Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783–1810)daughter of King George III of the United Kingdom
• Amelia Andersdotter (born 1987)Swedish politician, member of the EP
• Amelia Warner (born 1982)British composer and former actress

People named Amelia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Amelia is most common

• CA25,779
• TX22,962
• NY18,128
• FL13,896
• PA12,115
• IL11,083
• OH10,252
• MI9,141
• GA8,705
• NC8,281

Relative to how many babies each state records, Amelia is most concentrated in Alaska (1.9×), Nevada (1.7×), Utah (1.6×), Arizona (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2021

The most popular girls’ names the year Amelia peaked:

• Olivia
• Emma
• Charlotte
• Amelia
• Ava
• Sophia

All the names of 2021

Amelia elsewhere

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.

Amelia: births by region

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, Amelia is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.20% of children were given it – 279 of them.

Amelia: rank by region

In 2025, Amelia was given 5 times or more in 6 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Amelia was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.

In 2025, Amelia was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Amelia appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (Amélia, 32nd), Brussels-Capital Region (Amelia, 33rd), Province of East Flanders (Amelia, 34th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Amelia, 65th), Province of Limburg (Amelia, 69th), Province of Hainaut (Amélia, 90th), Province of Liège (Amélia, 91st), Province of West Flanders (Amelia, 103rd), Province of Antwerp (Amelia, 108th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Amélia, 108th), Province of Hainaut (Amelia, 117th), Brussels-Capital Region (Amélia, 132nd) and Province of East Flanders (Amélia, 250th).

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.

Amelia by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Amelia 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.

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 Amelia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 22,951 women called Amelia 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

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• America
• Amelie
• Ameer
• Amethyst
• Ameera
• Americo
• Amerie
• Ameerah
• Amen
• Ameena
• Ames
• Ameen

Amelia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Amelia vs America
• Amelia vs Amelie
• Amelia vs Ameer
• Amelia vs Amethyst
• Amelia vs Ameera
• Amelia vs Americo

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