Amélia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante di Amelio (Dizionario dei cognomi italiani)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/aˈmɛ.li.a/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Amélia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 176,472 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Amélia is also written เอมีเลีย in Thai and ამელია in Georgian.
- ALAlbania1 in 844(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.1K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amélia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #778 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 511 (measured from records)
- 1 in 844 (inferred from the name graph)
176,472 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Amélia in other scripts: Thai and Georgian
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Amelia in US United States, MX Mexico, PH Philippines and 1 more and Emilia in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Amélia
- Portuguese:/aˈmɛ.li.a/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variante di Amelio
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Amélia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #584 | 176,472 | 1 in 1.9K | 176K | Amelia | 511 |
| PL Poland | — | 165,157as Emilia | 1 in 232 | 165K | — | 7 |
| MX Mexico | #275 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 529 | Amelia | 161 |
| FI Finland | — | 71,923as Emilia | 1 in 77 | 92K | Emilia | 16 |
| PH Philippines | #365 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Amelia | 96 |
| SE Sweden | #861 | 30,143as Emilia | 1 in 338 | 30K | Amelia | 48 |
| MD Moldova | — | 9,652as Emilia | 1 in 349 | 9.7K | — | 8 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,641 | 1 in 844 | 3.6K | — | 2 |
176,472 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Empress Amélie of Brazilb. 1812FRnot in their usual nameEmpress consort of Brasil (1812–1873)
- Amélia Bittencourtb. 1938BRBrazilian actress (1938–2025)
- Amélia da Lombab. 1961AOAngolan writer, journalist and poet
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amélia mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante di Amelio Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani.
- How do you pronounce Amélia?
- In Portuguese /aˈmɛ.li.a/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Amélia a male or female name?
- Amélia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024).
- What are other forms of the name Amélia?
- In the etymology graph, Amalia, Amelie and Millie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Amélia?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 176 thousand people named Amélia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amelia. After it come Poland, Mexico, Finland and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Amélia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amélia is densest in Albania — about 1 in 844 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Amélia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 176,472 people named Amélia in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Amélia compared with other names?
- In the United States, Amélia is the 584th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amélia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/am%C3%A9liaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amélia” — ranked 311th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.