Amellia
Feminine · “work”
Amellia doubles the l in Amelia, and the name behind it is Germanic work rather than Roman family — Amelia and Emilia are different names that merged.
How old is the name Amellia?
Amellia first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Amellia is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Amellia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amellia most popular?
Amellia peaked in 2017, reaching #3145 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, 1,401 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Amellia
Ours, offered as ours. Amal is one of the most productive elements in Germanic naming — it gives Amalia, Amalric, Amalasuntha and the Amal dynasty of the Ostrogoths — and it means work in the sense of exertion and vigor rather than employment. So the name is closer to industriousness than to labor. English then fused it with the entirely separate Roman Aemilius, and the two have been tangled ever since.
Meaning
work, labor
Amelia descends from Germanic amal, work or effort, through Amalia. Emilia is separately from the Roman family name Aemilius. The two sounded close enough that English merged them, but the roots are unrelated.
Pronouncing Amellia
uh-MEEL-ee-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the second. Amellia and Amelia are said identically.
Nicknames for Amellia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 201751 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3145reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +3.4%30 in 2025, from 29
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Amellia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amelia in English — spelling variant
- Amalia in German — related form
- Emilia in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Tennessee, Ohio.
Amellias among us
people named Amellia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Amellia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amellia
- #4546
- Amellia on the 2025 chart
- #6
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amellia went to 30 girls in 2025, but Amelia is the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 12,808, which makes it the 6th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,540 places above the chart.
- Amelia12,699
- Amellia30
and 4 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 125 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,576 for Amellia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Slyvia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amellia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Slyvia climbed just as high around 1939, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Slyvia's path sketches the road Amellia is walking now.
Amellia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Amellia is headed
Amellia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Amellia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amellia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Amy, Mellie and Lia are all ready short forms inside it.
- A settled Germanic meaning describing energy rather than drudgery.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Amelia is the standard spelling and enormously more common.
- The doubled l is invisible aloud, so it will be misspelled constantly.
- Seven letters and four syllables is a lot for early handwriting.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amellias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Amellia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amellia?
- Amellia is one of 2 recorded spellings. Amelia is the more common one — 12,699 births in 2025 against 30 for Amellia.
- How popular is the name Amellia in 2025?
- Amellia ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amellia?
- About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Amellia — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amellia with classmates?
- Amellia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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