Amalia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Amelia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amalja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amalia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 1.6K
- ESSpain1 in 2.3K
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 Amalia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- 1 in 907 (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Amelia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amalia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #802 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Amalia | 70 |
| AR Argentina | #263 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 183 | Amalia | 104 |
| ES Spain | #320 | 22,174 | 1 in 2.3K | 23K | Amalia | 144 |
| US United States | — | 21,522 | 1 in 15K | 21K | Amalia | 321 |
| RO Romania | #276 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Amalia | 78 |
| FI Finland | — | 6,145 | 1 in 907 | 11K | — | 8 |
| GE Georgia | #286 | 1,727as ამალია | 1 in 2.3K | 1.7K | Amalia | 14 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Amalia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Amalia är en latiniserad form av gotiska namn på Amal-, möjligen med betydelsen ’flitig’. I den rikssvenska almanackan 20 april och i den finlandssvenska 19 maj.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Latin, Variante de Amelia.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Perseveranza
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Swedish, a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Amelia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, a female given name, a less common variant of Amelie or Amalie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburgb. 1673DEHoly Roman Empress consort (1673-1742)
- Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadtb. 1754DEnot in their usual nameHereditary Princess of Baden
- Princess Augusta Amalia of Bavariab. 1788FRBavarian princess, duchess consort of Leuchtenberg
- Amalia of Oldenburgb. 1818DEQueen of Greece (1818–1875)
- Princess Eugénie of Swedenb. 1830SEnot in their usual nameSwedish princess; daughter of Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg (1830–1889)
- Mercedes of Orléansb. 1860ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain
- Princess Viktoria of Prussiab. 1866DEnot in their usual namePrussian princess (1866-1929)
- Amália Rodriguesb. 1920PTPortuguese recording artist, fado singer, actress (1920–1999)
- Melina Mercourib. 1920GRnot in their usual nameGreek actress, singer and politician. Minister of Culture of Greece (1920-1994)
- Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orangeb. 2003NLheir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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 108 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 23K | #171 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22K | #323 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21K | #1,531 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 11K | #196 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 6.1K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 530 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 183 | #532 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 137 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 137 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49 | #1,531 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Amalia mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Amelia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Amalia?
- In the etymology graph, Amelia, Amelie and Millie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Amalia?
- A machine transcription gives /amalja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Amalia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 22,174 people named Amalia, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Amalia compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Amalia is the 802nd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
- Is Amalia a male or female name?
- Amalia 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.
- In which country does Amalia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Amalia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amalia.
- Where is Amalia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amalia is densest in Finland — about 1 in 907 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Amalia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amaliaThe 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, “Amalia” — the 802nd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.