Amalia

Locally spelled Αμαλια in GR Greece.

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.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Amalia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Bianca
• Camilla
• Cecilia
• Claudia
• Catalina
• Eleonora
• Camila
• Eliana
• Emiliana
• Elisa
• Elena
• Carina

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Amalia is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Portuguese

  Also written Amália, Amalía, Amàlia, Amālîa, Àmalia

• Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Spain

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Amalia, A'Malia, Amália, Àmàlià

• French given name12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Italy

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Amália, Amàlia, Amalïa, Amäliä, Amalià

• Hungarian given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Romania, Philippines

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Amàlia, Amália

• Russian given name87 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Croatian, Ukrainian

  Also written Амалия, Amalija, Амалія, Amaliia, Амалиа

• a separate name6 spellings in the group

  Also written Amalía, Amaliâ, Amàlia, Amali︠a︡, Amália

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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 name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Latin, Variante de Amelia.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Perseveranza

  as a name·Il 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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, a female given name, a less common variant of Amelie or Amalie

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• 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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /aˈma.lja/ (Wiktionary); in English /əˈmɑli.ə/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ɐmɐljɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

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 Mexico, Amalia is the 256th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.

Is Amalia a male or female name?

Amalia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Finland (DVV), among others.

In which country does Amalia have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Amalia in Mexico, 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 Mexico holds more of our records for it.