Amela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AH-meh-lah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Amela is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “hope”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Amela mean?
Arabic: Bosnian name from Arabic amal
“hope”
A Bosnian name formed from Arabic amal, 'hope'.
Is Amela a girl's or a boy's name?
Amela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amela in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2013, with 7 girls.
Half of all the girls named Amela in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Amela in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 1 | #5,540 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
How popular is Amela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 11% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Amela, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2020, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 1983.
2025 had fewer girls named Amela than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Amela in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Amela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,981 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,817 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,719 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,204 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,951 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,329 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,239 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,315 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
Names like Amela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Amira Aaliyah Khadija Abeeha Hafsa Ayah Hiba Zainab Ayla Halima Amina
Names related to Amela
Amelia Amelie Amla Amel Amila Amala Ameliah Amelle Amyla Ameila Amellia Amelya
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Amela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amela, updated 20 October 2026.