Amélie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French form of Amelia/Amalia, from Germanic amal 'work', via Latinized forms
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ameli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amélie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 2.8K
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Amelie in FR France, DE Germany, US United States and 2 more.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Germanicamal(measured from records)
- Latinizedforms(measured from records)
French form of Amelia/Amalia, from Germanic amal 'work', via Latinized forms.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amélie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #156 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 98K | Amelie | 334 |
| DE Germany | #838 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | 7 | Amelie | 181 |
| US United States | — | 7,678 | 1 in 43K | 7.7K | Amelie | 252 |
| CM Cameroon | #326 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Amelie | 18 |
| SE Sweden | #566 | 3,582 | 1 in 2.8K | 3.6K | Amelie | 60 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,978 | 1 in 5.4K | 2K | Amélie | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,686 | 1 in 3.3K | 1.9K | — | 5 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the de-munich-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amélie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a female given name, equivalent to English Amelia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, D’origine incertaine; peut venir du latin Emilie/Emile (« émule ») ou d’une base germanique signifiant « puissant ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du germanique amal, « travail, effort »; fête le 19 septembre (sainte Amélie).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
French form of AMELIA , now sometimes also used in the English-speaking world, with or without the accent.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amalia of Solms-Braunfelsb. 1602DEnot in their usual nameRegent of Orange (1602-1675)
- Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadtb. 1754DEnot in their usual nameHereditary Princess of Baden
- Princess Amélie Louise of Arenbergb. 1789BEMember of the House of Arenberg
- Empress Amélie of Brazilb. 1812FREmpress consort of Brasil (1812–1873)
- Princess Louise of Belgiumb. 1858BEnot in their usual nameBelgian Royal (1858–1924)
- Amélie of Orléansb. 1865FRQueen Consort of Portugal (1889 - 1908)
- Duchess Amalie in Bavariab. 1865DEnot in their usual nameonly child of Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria and Princess Sophie of Saxony (1865-1912)
- Elena Poniatowskab. 1932FRnot in their usual nameFrench-born Mexican journalist and author
- Amélie Mauresmob. 1979FRFrench tennis player
- Stéphanie Frappartb. 1983FRnot in their usual nameFrench football referee (born 1983)
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)
Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 98K | #458 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2K | #376 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 989 | #421 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 519 | #2,701 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 331 | #1,342 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 269 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 225 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2023 | 7 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 2 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #2 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2024 | — | #47 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2025 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amélie mean, and where does it come from?
- French form of Amelia/Amalia, from Germanic amal 'work', via Latinized forms. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Amélie?
- A machine transcription gives /ameli/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Amélie?
- In the etymology graph, Amelia, Amalia and Millie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Amélie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Amélie in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amelie.
- Is Amélie a male or female name?
- Amélie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Amélie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,678 people named Amélie in 2020, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Amélie compared with other names?
- In France, Amélie is the 156th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amélie?
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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%A9lieThe 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, “Amélie” — the 156th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.