Amelia
Few names outrank Amelia this year, it stands #4, neither climbing nor fading. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 281,130 bearers and counting.
What Amelia carries
Amelia · Teutonic
“work”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Amelia’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Amelia, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Amelia since 1880
Amelia peaked in 2021 at #4; #4 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Amelia is most common
Among the states, Amelia takes its largest share in Wyoming, 2.22% of the girls' names recorded there in 2025, with Alaska and Vermont next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Amelia
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Charlotte
#2 in 2025 · Teutonic
Henry
#5 in 2025 · Teutonic
Adeline
#59 in 2025 · Teutonic
Emery
#74 in 2025 · Teutonic
Axel
#79 in 2025 · Teutonic
Audrey
#86 in 2025 · Teutonic
Leonardo
#91 in 2025 · Teutonic
Aubrey
#146 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with A · Teutonic names · all names
About Amelia
How popular is the name Amelia?
Few names outrank Amelia this year, it stands #4, neither climbing nor fading. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Amelia mean?
“work” is the meaning our source sets down, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Amelia?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Charlotte sits closest, with Henry and Adeline just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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