Amelie
Amelie was given to 329 girls in 2025, #828 among girls’ names; 9,654 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,360 Americans named Amelie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amelie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amelie mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Amelie is “a female given name, equivalent to English Amelia” Its etymology gives the sense “vigor” (*amal).
Derived from Proto-Germanic compound names beginning with the element *amal (“vigor”).
[ˌameːˈliː]
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amelie?
#828 among girls’ names, 2025
Amelie fell from #638 in 2015 to #828 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.25 to 0.20 per 1,000.
466 babies in 2013, the peak
Amelie peaked in 2013, when 466 girls were given it, #603 among girls’ names. The 329 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 329 | #828 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 395 | #710 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 300 | #893 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 316 | #880 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 332 | #832 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 336 | #808 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 371 | #756 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 392 | #725 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 423 | #689 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 444 | #658 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 446 | #638 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 430 | #665 | 0.24 |
| 2013 | 466 | #603 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 454 | #629 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 400 | #697 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 427 | #677 | 0.24 |
| 2009 | 434 | #670 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 379 | #774 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 385 | #759 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 360 | #762 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 309 | #828 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 293 | #840 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 274 | #882 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 186 | #1,121 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,704 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,295 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,200 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,029 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,891 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,292 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,611 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,521 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,098 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,488 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,407 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,296 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,715 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,615 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,970 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,042 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,833 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,956 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,534 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,969 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,925 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,100 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,576 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,949 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,058 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,509 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,274 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,463 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,488 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,502 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,484 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,390 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,767 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,963 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,930 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,335 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,325 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,865 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,592 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,060 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,977 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,681 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,978 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,832 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,101 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,268 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,807 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,892 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,208 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,081 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,963 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 8 | #864 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 7 | #902 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amelie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amelie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amelie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amelie, and how old are they?
9,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 9,654 Americans ever recorded as Amelie. The median Amelie alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 7,678 people named Amelie (7,672 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,472 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 73 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 113 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 233 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,990 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,950 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Amelie born?
The states with the most babies named Amelie are California, Texas and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 71 | #475 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 44 | #687 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 36 | #503 | 1.3× |
| New York | 14 | #1,032 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 14 | #673 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 13 | #343 | 3.0× |
| Georgia | 12 | #800 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 10 | #540 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 8 | #850 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 8 | #754 | 0.8× |
Where Amelie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amelie is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amelie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 314,524 babies since 1880, Amelie is the third most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 329 of their 13,849 babies (2.4%), again the third 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 Amelie
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 Amelie and names like it
- Compare Amelie and AmeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmelie peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amelie since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Amelie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Amelie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amelie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.