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Girl name#167 of girl names

Amelia

Pronounced AH0 M IY1 L Y AH0 (ARPABET)

  • 3 syllables
  • Peaked 2021
  • 145 years in use
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How popular is Amelia?

Amelia is a girls' name, and has been in the record since the data starts in 1880. It has been given to 270,292 children — the 167th most common girls' name on record.

It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2021, when 13,123 children were given it.

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2021Girls: 13,123Boys: 8

Characteristics

  • Alliterative
  • 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
Pronunciations:
AH0 M IY1 L Y AH0
Stress pattern:
010
Syllables:
3

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Names like Amelia

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Sibling names for Amelia

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

Frequently asked questions

How popular is the name Amelia?
Amelia ranks 167th among girls' names in US records, with 270,292 births since 1880. Over the past decade it accounts for 122,244.
Is Amelia a unisex name?
No. Amelia is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Amelia most popular?
2021, when 13,123 children were given the name. It has been in use for 145 years and is still recorded as of 2024.