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Amalie

#3,907 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Amelia

Amalie has been given to 1,461 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #3,907 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Amalie, 2025

1 in 89,600

Amalie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amalie: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Amelia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amalie means

Amalie is a English equivalent of Amelia.

Origin, language, and formation

Amalie is used in Danish, German and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amelia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Amalie is pronounced /amaːljə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,461 girls were recorded with the name Amalie between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2011; its best national rank was #822 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,268 in 2020 to #3,907 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,600 in 2015 to #3,907 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Amalie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,907
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amalie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amalie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amalies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amalie was born before 2008 — so the typical Amalie is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,348
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (449).

Is Amalie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+361
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−307
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.9%
Peak was 2011 (57)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#822
1883

Spellings of Amalie

Amalie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 32.5% against Amalie's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Amalie is used

Across 2016–2025, Amalie was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 62,308 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2Arizona1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Amalie around the world

Where Amalie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #894
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2023
    #540
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2015–2015
    #896
    in 2015
  • France
    1900–2025
    #7,470
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #25
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2023
    #2,049
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1975–2013
    #328
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Amalie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,907
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 361
Best rank ever
#822
1883
Peak year
2011
57 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,461
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Amalie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Amalie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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