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Amelie

#828 in 2025Girls' name

Vigor

Amelie has been given to 9,654 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #828 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 466 recorded.

Babies named Amelie, 2025

1 in 10,100

Amelie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amelie: meaning, origin, and history

Vigor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amelie means

Amelie means “vigor”, associated with amal.

Origin, language, and formation

Amelie is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amelia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Amelie is pronounced [ˌameːˈliː].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,654 girls were recorded with the name Amelie between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 466 in 2013; its best national rank was #603 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #808 in 2020 to #828 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #638 in 2015 to #828 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 Amelie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,100
329 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,890
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#828
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,986 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amelie 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,986 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amelie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amelies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amelie was born before 2013 — so the typical Amelie is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,444
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (4,253).

Is Amelie 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
−118
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−20
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−190
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.6%
Peak was 2013 (466)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#603
2013

Spellings of Amelie

Amelie is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 42.6% against Amelie's 1.5%.

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 Amelie is used

Across 2016–2025, Amelie was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 1,031 girls, against 1 in 3,759 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 33,333).

397 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 1,031
  2. 2California1 in 2,273
  3. 3Florida1 in 2,500
  4. 4Oregon1 in 2,632
  5. 5Washington1 in 2,703
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 2,778
  7. 7New York1 in 2,941
  8. 8Colorado1 in 3,333

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.

Geographically, Amelie is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 89% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Amelie around the world

Where Amelie 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
    #122
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #226
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2025
    #290
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2025
    #325
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #547
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #337
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #396
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2013
    #106
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2007–2016
    #100
    in 2016

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

Notable people named Amelie

People whose public names include Amelie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Amelie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Amelie. Linked forms have their own page here.

MalkaAmaliaAmalieAmeliaEmaliaAmàliaAmália

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Amelie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#828
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 20
Best rank ever
#603
2013
Peak year
2013
466 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,654
Count in 2025
329

Names similar to Amelie

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

AmeeraAmericaAshlieAmerieHaylieKarlieKallieAmeenaHailieCarlieTillieHollieDollieMarlieHarlieAmeerahKaylieAmethystHalieEmilieBaylieMallieVallieJolie

Names with a curve like Amelie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Amelie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LiliannaJaliyahMaleahSienaAleenaMadilynnYareliAveriSariahMalayaLiviaLilyana

Sibling names for Amelie

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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