Name histories / Amelia
Amelia: U.S. name history
Published Social Security birth-name counts for the exact spelling Amelia in the female recorded field, 1880–2025.
In the latest file, Amelia was at position 4 among published female-field spellings, with 12,699 recorded births. That is down 87 from 12,786 in 2024. Its first released row in this archive is from 1880; a missing earlier row does not establish when the name began to exist.
What the historical pattern shows
Amelia had a long published history before its recent climb. The spelling was position 96 in 1880 but only position 207 in 2000. By 2010 it had moved to position 41, and it entered the top ten in the following decade.
Its highest published count came in 2021. In 2025 it was fourth. Those two observations measure different things: the number of recorded births with this spelling and its place relative to other spellings in a particular year.
Selected annual records
| Birth year | Published count | Position* |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 221 | 96 |
| 1900 | 398 | 146 |
| 1925 | 889 | 216 |
| 1950 | 483 | 357 |
| 1975 | 523 | 387 |
| 1990 | 1,513 | 194 |
| 2000 | 1,531 | 207 |
| 2010 | 5,464 | 41 |
| 2015 | 9,878 | 12 |
| 2020 | 12,802 | 6 |
| 2021 | 13,041 | 4 |
| 2024 | 12,786 | 3 |
| 2025 | 12,699 | 4 |
*Position is calculated from the published entries in one year and field, ordered by count; it is not an official SSA rank. Counts are not adjusted for population or coverage. SSA suppresses small cells, so no row does not mean zero births.
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Sources: SSA national data and suppression rules · our data method. Data reviewed 1 November 2026.