Meaning and history
Amélia is a variant of Amalia and is sometimes confused with the unrelated name Emilia. It became popular in 18th-century England after the German House of Hanover took the British throne, with daughters of both George II and George III bearing the name. Henry Fielding used it for the title character of his 1751 novel Amelia, and another notable bearer was Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The name rose again near the end of the 20th century and ranked first for girls in England and Wales from 2011 to 2015.
20062006: 4,065 births, rank #83
2007: 4,194 births, rank #77
2008: 4,352 births, rank #68
2009: 4,705 births, rank #55
2010: 5,464 births, rank #41
20112011: 6,374 births, rank #30
2012: 7,249 births, rank #23
2013: 8,052 births, rank #17
2014: 8,805 births, rank #15
2015: 9,878 births, rank #12
20162016: 10,809 births, rank #10
2017: 11,870 births, rank #8
2018: 12,405 births, rank #8
2019: 12,944 births, rank #7
2020: 12,802 births, rank #6
20212021: 13,041 births, rank #4
2022: 12,415 births, rank #4
2023: 12,365 births, rank #4
2024: 12,786 births, rank #3
20252025: 12,699 births, rank #4
Amelia has made a dramatic comeback. After first appearing in the US records in 1880, it fell to #489 by 1968, before climbing to #4 in 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2021, with 13,041 births.