Ameliah
Ameliah was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,716 among girls’ names; 864 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ameliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ameliah?
#3,716 among girls’ names, 2025
Ameliah fell from #3,257 in 2015 to #3,716 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.0 to 24.9 per million.
70 babies in 2019, the peak
Ameliah peaked in 2019, when 70 girls were given it, #2,509 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,716 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,043 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,276 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,654 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,215 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,751 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,509 | 41.7 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,842 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,874 | 33.6 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,700 | 36.1 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,257 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,003 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,219 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,391 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,575 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,614 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,104 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,435 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,862 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,605 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,167 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,748 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,495 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,156 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ameliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ameliah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ameliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ameliah, and how old are they?
An estimated 858 Americans named Ameliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 502 people named Ameliah (498 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 614 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Ameliah?
Ameliah is a less common spelling of Amelia: SSA has recorded 864 Ameliah and 281,414 Amelia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 313,590 babies since 1880, Ameliah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 13,843 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
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 Ameliah
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 Ameliah and names like it
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