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Amela

#8,396 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Amela has been given to 467 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #8,396 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Amela, 2025

1 in 276,000

Amela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amela: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amela means

Amela is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Amela is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Amela is pronounced /amɛla/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 467 girls were recorded with the name Amela between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2020; its best national rank was #5,491 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,491 in 2020 to #8,396 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,738 in 2015 to #8,396 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 Amela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,396
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amela 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amela was born before 2010 — so the typical Amela is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
467
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Amela 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
−778
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,905
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,658
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.5%
Peak was 2020 (22)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,491
2020

Spellings of Amela

Amela is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 25.2% against Amela's 0.02%.

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 Amela is used

Across 1910–2025, Amela was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 568,473 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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. Amela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amela around the world

Where Amela 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
    2001–2023
    #3,599
    in 2023
  • France
    1975–2025
    #4,416
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #2,528
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1971–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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

Amela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,396
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,905
Best rank ever
#5,491
2020
Peak year
2020
22 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
467
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Amela

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

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Sibling names for Amela

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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