Amel
Amel is given to both girls and boys: 16 girls and 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,852 among girls’ names and #8,286 among boys’, #8,855 among all names counting both); 1,106 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amel?
#8,286 among boys’ names, 2025
Amel fell from #5,295 in 2015 to #8,286 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 5.3 per million.
41 babies in 2000, the peak
Amel peaked in 2000, when 41 babies were given it (17 boys, #4,391 among boys’ names). The 25 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 61% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,852 | 9 | #8,286 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,994 | 9 | #8,347 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,024 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,572 | 12 | #6,842 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,508 | 11 | #7,118 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,945 | 20 | #4,701 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,186 | 13 | #6,414 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,028 | 12 | #6,717 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,323 | 12 | #6,704 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,624 | 15 | #5,801 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #6,998 | 17 | #5,295 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,075 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,079 | 7 | #9,697 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,599 | 16 | #5,488 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,868 | 7 | #9,648 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,546 | 19 | #4,851 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,520 | 17 | #5,340 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,555 | 16 | #5,496 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,579 | 16 | #5,441 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,325 | 14 | #5,799 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,166 | 11 | #6,652 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,292 | 20 | #4,267 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,595 | 15 | #5,041 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,063 | 13 | #5,405 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,631 | 21 | #3,844 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,797 | 17 | #4,391 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,836 | 5 | #9,976 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,195 | 5 | #9,678 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,168 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,849 | 6 | #8,002 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,794 | 9 | #5,938 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,618 | 7 | #6,991 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,648 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,523 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,244 | 7 | #6,534 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,042 | 7 | #6,426 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,313 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,381 | 6 | #6,113 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,478 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,450 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,334 | 5 | #6,088 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,466 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 6 | #3,385 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,310 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,543 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,444 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 6 | #3,222 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #2,884 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 8 | #2,687 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,298 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,283 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 7 | #3,250 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 8 | #3,084 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 8 | #3,159 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 9 | #2,909 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 11 | #2,594 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 14 | #2,231 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 11 | #2,620 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,541 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 12 | #2,502 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 9 | #2,973 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,407 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 14 | #2,166 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 13 | #2,190 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 9 | #2,733 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 15 | #1,881 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,273 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Amel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,106 Americans recorded as Amel, 43% are girls and 57% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amel, and how old are they?
An estimated 898 Americans named Amel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,833 people named Amel (1,093 women and girls, 740 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 782 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,145 babies since 1880, Amel is the third most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 113 babies (22%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Amel and names like it
- Compare Amel and AmielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmel peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amel since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Amel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.