Amelya
Amelya was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,927 among girls’ names; 760 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amelya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amelya?
#5,927 among girls’ names, 2025
Amelya fell from #4,234 in 2015 to #5,927 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 12.4 per million.
44 babies in 2011, the peak
Amelya peaked in 2011, when 44 girls were given it, #3,551 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,927 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,180 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,461 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,799 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,330 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,018 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,615 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,922 | 21.8 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,002 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,352 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,234 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,320 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,645 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,392 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,551 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,403 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,376 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,941 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,104 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,858 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,116 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,068 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,308 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,316 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,789 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,881 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,528 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,632 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,510 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amelya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amelya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amelya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amelya, and how old are they?
An estimated 754 Americans named Amelya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 549 people named Amelya (548 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 607 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 Amelya?
Amelya is a less common spelling of Amelia: SSA has recorded 760 Amelya and 281,414 Amelia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 314,232 babies since 1880, Amelya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 13,889 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Amelya
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 Amelya and names like it
- Compare Amelya and AmeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmelya peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amelya since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Amelya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amelya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.