Amelda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amelda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 28K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 63K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amelda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Amelda | 18 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Amelda | 7 |
| PH Philippines | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Amelda | 14 |
| US United States | 241 | 1 in 1.4M | 241 | Amelda | 96 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Amelda | 15 |
| AL Albania | 109 | 1 in 28K | 109 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 116K | 11 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | Amelda | 1 |
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; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 241 | #34,047 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 109 | #2,707 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1942 | 13 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 11 | #7,140 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1931 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1932 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 8 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Amelda a male or female name?
- Amelda 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 Amelda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 889 people named Amelda in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amelda.
- Where is Amelda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amelda is densest in Albania — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Amelda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 241 people named Amelda in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ameldaThe 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, “Amelda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.