Amele

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/amɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Amele is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 160K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TGTogo≈1 in 3.8K
  • ETEthiopia≈1 in 37K

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 Amele 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.

Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,900 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Togo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AmeleLatin(measured from records)
አመለEthiopic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled አመለ in ET Ethiopia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Amele 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.

Where Amele is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia—≈2,900 est.≈1 in 37K—አመለ7
TG Togo#330≈2,300 est.≈1 in 3.8K2Amele8
NG Nigeria—≈490 est.≈1 in 437K—Amele23
US United States—464as Amala1 in 717K454Amele61
FR France—≈430 est.≈1 in 160K380Amele126
BJ Benin#920≈180 est.≈1 in 71K—Amele5
BR Brazil—211 in 10M21——
GY Guyana—16as Amala1 in 47K16——

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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Amele is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Amelé, Amélé, Amèle

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Amélé, Amelé

  • Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Amèle, Âmele, Àmëlë

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Amèle

  • Italian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Amélé, Amèle

26 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Amele is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A language of Papua New Guinea.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, worker, laborer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (mazciems) Ventspils novada Puzes pagasta austrumu daļā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Amele,Hi Amele, (English)

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 14 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Amele
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

How do you pronounce Amele?
A machine transcription gives /amɛl/ (IPA) for French.
Is Amele a male or female name?
Amele 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 Amele have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Amele in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled አመለ.
How common is the name Amele?
In Brazil, the national register counted 21 people named Amele in 2022, about 1 in 10 million residents.
How common is Amele compared with other names?
In Togo, Amele is the 330th most common given name of 1,075 given names recorded there.

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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, “Amele” — the 330th most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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