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Amelia

Girls' name · Current

Living in the US
~243,900 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#4 among girls
Births in 2025
12,705 281,414 since 1880
Typical age
9 years, median

Amelia popularity over time

Amelia rank by birth year, 1880–2025Amelia ranked #96 in 1880 and #4 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #3, in 2024.#10#100#418901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2021: 13,049 births recorded as Amelia. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. It has held a top-100 place in 27 separate years.

In 2025 it ranked #4 with 12,705 births. Compared with 2015, births are up 29%.

Babies named Amelia per yearPeaks at 13,049 births in 2021.13,049 in 2021018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Amelia?

An estimated 243,900 living Americans are called Amelia. That is out of 281,414 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Amelia?

Half of living Amelias are older than 9, half younger. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Amelia a current name.

Your Amelia

Ages of living people named AmeliaHalf of living Amelias are older than 9 and half younger.median 9020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Amelia is most common

The name is concentrated in Vermont, at 2.8× the national rate. Wyoming, Alaska and Rhode Island follow.

Where Amelia is used more than average5 states use the name Amelia more than the national average.Alaska: 2.3× the national rateAKMaine: 2.0× the national rateMEVermont: 2.8× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: 2.6× the national rateWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.2× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Amelia is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Vermont 240 2.8×
Wyoming 206 2.6×
Alaska 373 2.3×
Rhode Island 482 2.2×
Maine 526 2.0×

Amelia in England and Wales

ONS recorded 2,153 births named Amelia in 2025, ranking it #3. That is 35% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Amelia comes from

A variant of Amalia, derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amalą (“vigor, bravery”). For the first element, compare *ammōną (“to bother, irritate”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Amelia

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Amelia Earhart American aviation pioneer and author 1897–1939 125
Amelia Bloomer Women's rights activist 1818–1894 35
Amelia Vega Dominican model and Miss Universe 2003 1984 31
Amelia Edwards English novelist, journalist, traveller and egyptologist 1831–1892 27
Amelia Andersdotter Swedish politician, member of the EP 1987 27
Amelia Warner British composer and former actress 1982 22
Amelia Bence Argentine film actress 1914–2016 22
Amelia Piccinini Italian athletics competitor 1917–1979 19
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 430 in 1911 to 672 in 1912 — 1.6 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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