Amellia
Amellia was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,555 among girls’ names; 855 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amellia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amellia?
#4,555 among girls’ names, 2025
Amellia fell from #4,076 in 2015 to #4,555 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 18.7 per million.
51 babies in 2017, the peak
Amellia peaked in 2017, when 51 girls were given it, #3,149 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,555 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,672 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,874 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,967 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,508 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,683 | 24.7 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,793 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,203 | 29.4 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,149 | 29.5 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,257 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,076 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,928 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,501 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,217 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,070 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,194 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,906 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,459 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,329 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,394 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,838 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,413 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,068 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,315 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,157 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,927 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,790 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,175 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,845 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,631 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,612 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,839 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,527 | 3.8 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,132 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,789 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,283 | 3.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,834 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,056 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,561 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,153 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,451 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,051 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amellia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amellia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amellia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amellia, and how old are they?
An estimated 847 Americans named Amellia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 642 people named Amellia (638 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 666 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 Amellia?
Amellia is a less common spelling of Amelia: SSA has recorded 855 Amellia and 281,414 Amelia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 313,858 babies since 1880, Amellia is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 13,839 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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 Amellia
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 Amellia and names like it
- Compare Amellia and AmeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmellia peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amellia since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Amellia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amellia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.