Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Amelia yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Amelia's birth count peaked in 2021 at 13,032, and its rank reached its own best-ever mark, #3, in 2024 — essentially where it sits now. That's a 45% rise over the past decade, one of the few names in the current top ten still gaining rather than sliding from an earlier high.
Unlike most names in this range, the enrichment data doesn't attach it to a clear linguistic origin, and its most prominent historical namesake, Empress Amélie of Brazil, is a specific royal figure rather than a broad cultural reference point most parents would recognize today. That makes Amelia's rise harder to pin on any single influence.
What the data does show is a name gaining altitude at exactly the moment several -a-ending names (Olivia, Sophia, Isabella) are declining from their own earlier peaks — Amelia's climb looks less like an isolated trend and more like it's catching some of the demand that those names are shedding as parents look for something with a similar sound but less market saturation.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 221 | #96 |
| 1881 | 235 | #93 |
| 1882 | 252 | #102 |
| 1883 | 262 | #97 |
| 1884 | 315 | #96 |
| 1885 | 298 | #102 |
| 1886 | 326 | #101 |
| 1887 | 344 | #93 |
| 1888 | 358 | #108 |
| 1889 | 346 | #110 |
| 1890 | 368 | #109 |
| 1891 | 353 | #112 |
| 1892 | 385 | #118 |
| 1893 | 385 | #114 |
| 1894 | 390 | #119 |
| 1895 | 379 | #125 |
| 1896 | 365 | #131 |
| 1897 | 408 | #121 |
| 1898 | 360 | #140 |
| 1899 | 332 | #140 |
| 1900 | 398 | #146 |
| 1901 | 350 | #140 |
| 1902 | 355 | #149 |
| 1903 | 347 | #150 |
| 1904 | 353 | #153 |
| 1905 | 365 | #155 |
| 1906 | 358 | #160 |
| 1907 | 380 | #163 |
| 1908 | 370 | #163 |
| 1909 | 388 | #163 |
| 1910 | 449 | #163 |
| 1911 | 430 | #174 |
| 1912 | 672 | #160 |
| 1913 | 721 | #161 |
| 1914 | 926 | #156 |
| 1915 | 1,115 | #165 |
| 1916 | 1,159 | #167 |
| 1917 | 1,160 | #173 |
| 1918 | 1,115 | #183 |
| 1919 | 1,085 | #181 |
| 1920 | 1,054 | #190 |
| 1921 | 995 | #200 |
| 1922 | 1,032 | #195 |
| 1923 | 965 | #205 |
| 1924 | 910 | #216 |
| 1925 | 889 | #216 |
| 1926 | 746 | #236 |
| 1927 | 754 | #235 |
| 1928 | 755 | #227 |
| 1929 | 687 | #229 |
| 1930 | 679 | #236 |
| 1931 | 591 | #248 |
| 1932 | 637 | #243 |
| 1933 | 608 | #246 |
| 1934 | 553 | #264 |
| 1935 | 604 | #255 |
| 1936 | 580 | #254 |
| 1937 | 647 | #245 |
| 1938 | 570 | #265 |
| 1939 | 489 | #282 |
| 1940 | 504 | #279 |
| 1941 | 529 | #279 |
| 1942 | 543 | #290 |
| 1943 | 559 | #292 |
| 1944 | 476 | #307 |
| 1945 | 474 | #312 |
| 1946 | 547 | #317 |
| 1947 | 539 | #343 |
| 1948 | 564 | #330 |
| 1949 | 589 | #320 |
| 1950 | 483 | #357 |
| 1951 | 532 | #345 |
| 1952 | 549 | #350 |
| 1953 | 552 | #360 |
| 1954 | 511 | #380 |
| 1955 | 530 | #383 |
| 1956 | 526 | #392 |
| 1957 | 520 | #404 |
| 1958 | 484 | #427 |
| 1959 | 502 | #424 |
| 1960 | 542 | #414 |
| 1961 | 571 | #407 |
| 1962 | 493 | #436 |
| 1963 | 504 | #433 |
| 1964 | 503 | #438 |
| 1965 | 476 | #431 |
| 1966 | 431 | #452 |
| 1967 | 450 | #445 |
| 1968 | 390 | #489 |
| 1969 | 465 | #445 |
| 1970 | 493 | #445 |
| 1971 | 481 | #432 |
| 1972 | 406 | #458 |
| 1973 | 442 | #436 |
| 1974 | 507 | #399 |
| 1975 | 523 | #387 |
| 1976 | 523 | #394 |
| 1977 | 601 | #362 |
| 1978 | 643 | #339 |
| 1979 | 702 | #337 |
| 1980 | 768 | #315 |
| 1981 | 849 | #286 |
| 1982 | 832 | #297 |
| 1983 | 762 | #304 |
| 1984 | 1,094 | #233 |
| 1985 | 1,015 | #249 |
| 1986 | 1,019 | #252 |
| 1987 | 1,006 | #254 |
| 1988 | 1,130 | #232 |
| 1989 | 1,265 | #216 |
| 1990 | 1,513 | #194 |
| 1991 | 1,536 | #194 |
| 1992 | 1,345 | #214 |
| 1993 | 1,248 | #224 |
| 1994 | 1,255 | #226 |
| 1995 | 1,207 | #237 |
| 1996 | 1,292 | #222 |
| 1997 | 1,317 | #228 |
| 1998 | 1,425 | #215 |
| 1999 | 1,421 | #225 |
| 2000 | 1,531 | #207 |
| 2001 | 1,638 | #199 |
| 2002 | 2,444 | #139 |
| 2003 | 3,096 | #111 |
| 2004 | 3,352 | #96 |
| 2005 | 3,911 | #84 |
| 2006 | 4,065 | #83 |
| 2007 | 4,194 | #77 |
| 2008 | 4,351 | #68 |
| 2009 | 4,705 | #55 |
| 2010 | 5,464 | #41 |
| 2011 | 6,374 | #30 |
| 2012 | 7,248 | #23 |
| 2013 | 8,051 | #17 |
| 2014 | 8,804 | #15 |
| 2015 | 9,875 | #12 |
| 2016 | 10,808 | #10 |
| 2017 | 11,868 | #8 |
| 2018 | 12,402 | #8 |
| 2019 | 12,940 | #7 |
| 2020 | 12,799 | #6 |
| 2021 | 13,032 | #4 |
| 2022 | 12,409 | #4 |
| 2023 | 12,352 | #4 |
| 2024 | 12,740 | #3 |
