Ameliyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-MEE-lee-a
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Ameliyah is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “work, labour”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Ameliyah mean?
Germanic: spelling of Ameliya, itself a variant of Amelia, from Germanic amal
“work, labour”
Aviator Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, in 1932.
Meaning borrowed from Ameliya.
Is Ameliyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Ameliyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ameliyah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2012, with 6 girls.
Ameliyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
How popular is Ameliyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Ameliyah, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Ameliyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 12,973 girls in the US were given Ameliyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #4, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.
Ameliyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
Nicknames for Ameliyah
Names like Ameliyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Aafiyah, Safa, Abeeha, Ayah, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Zainab, Aaminah, Aasiyah, Azariyah
Other spellings of Ameliyah
Names related to Ameliyah
More Germanic names
Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Emma, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Millie, Albie, Matilda, Louie, Miles, Alice
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, “Ameliyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ameliyah, updated 20 October 2026.