Amillia
Feminine · “work or effort”
Amillia is a spelling that sits between two names English has been confusing for three hundred years. Amelia is Germanic and means work; Emilia is Roman and belongs to a family whose name may mean rival. They were merged in eighteenth-century England, and every spelling since has inherited both.
How old is the name Amillia?
Amillia first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Amillia is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Amillia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amillia most popular?
Amillia peaked in 2015, reaching #3129 nationally. Today it ranks #4878, 1,749 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amal to Amillia
The story of Amillia
Amalia was a German name carried by noblewomen, and Aemilia was a Roman one; when the Hanoverians brought Amalia to Britain in the eighteenth century, English speakers heard it as a version of Emily and wrote Amelia. The two families have been mixed ever since. The name became enormously popular in the English-speaking world in the two-thousands, and respellings followed at once, with Amelia, Emilia, Amilia and Amillia all in circulation.
Meaningscholars disagree
work or effort, through Amelia
Two names meet here. Amelia comes from Germanic amal, work or labor, through Amalia. Emilia comes from the Roman family name Aemilius, often connected to aemulus, rival or striving, which is itself uncertain. English merged them in the eighteenth century and the modern spellings descend from the merger rather than from either name cleanly.
How the name formed
- amal
- Amalia
- Amelia
- Amillia
Related forms: Amelia · Emilia · Amalie · Amelia · Amelia
Pronouncing Amillia
uh-MEEL-yuh
Three or four syllables depending on how the -lia is treated. The double l changes nothing about the sound.
Nicknames for Amillia
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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
- 1980
- Most girls named
- 201553 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3129reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- −3.6%27 in 2025, from 28
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.
Amillia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amelia in English — spelling variant
- Emilia in Italian — related form
- Amalie in German — related form
- Amelia in Polish — same name
- Amelia in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Amillias among us
people named Amillia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 59,528 born in 2025 was named Amillia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amillia
- #4878
- Amillia on the 2025 chart
- #727
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amillia went to 27 girls in 2025, but Amilia, Amylia and Amilya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 235, which makes it the 727th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,151 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 6,839 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 59,528 for Amillia 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 Faithe test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amillia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Faithe climbed just as high around 1945, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Faithe's path sketches the road Amillia is walking now.
Amillia 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 Amillia is headed
Amillia 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.
Amillia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amillia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It offers four genuine short forms, Millie and Mia and Amy and Lia, all complete names.
- It connects to two well-documented naming traditions rather than one.
- The rhythm is soft and open, which sits well against short surnames.
- Amelia is the standard spelling by an enormous margin, so this one will be corrected for life.
- Amelia and Emilia are both in very heavy use, so the sound is everywhere.
- The double l reads as an error to most people, though it is a deliberate choice.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amillias 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 Amillia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amillia?
- Amillia is one of 6 recorded spellings. Amilia is the more common one — 158 births in 2025 against 27 for Amillia.
- How popular is the name Amillia in 2025?
- Amillia ranks #4878 among US girl names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amillia?
- About 1 in every 59,528 US girls born in 2025 was named Amillia — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amillia with classmates?
- Amillia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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