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Amellia

Gender
Girl
Say it
a-MEE-lee-a
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#4,545 for girls

Amellia is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “work”. In 2025 it ranked 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).

What does Amellia mean?

Germanic: spelling of Amelia; from the element amal, 'work'

“work”

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Meaning borrowed from Amelia. More on Wiktionary.

Is Amellia a girl's or a boy's name?

Amellia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Amellia in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 16 girls.

Half of all the girls named Amellia in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1998Busiest: 16 in 20082023
Amellia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20235#4,251
20220–
20211#7,491
20200–
20196#3,738
20186#3,702
20175#4,250
20160–
20159#2,855
20149#2,809
201315#1,964
201211#2,463
201116#1,824
201011#2,379
200910#2,478
200816#1,745
200715#1,784
20067#2,940
20058#2,555
20046#2,957
20037#2,574
20024#3,556
20014#3,427
20001#5,280
19991#5,182
19983#4,026

How popular is Amellia in the US?

Rank in 2025
4,545th among girls
Babies in 2025
30 about 1 in 54,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 33% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Amellia, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,675th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 51 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.

Half of all the girls named Amellia in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 12,973 girls in the US were given Amellia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #4, up from #4,545 for this spelling alone.

1979Busiest: 51 in 20172025
Amellia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202530#4,545
202429#4,667
202327#4,870
202237#3,961
202130#4,503
202040#3,675
201939#3,787
201850#3,200
201751#3,145
201634#4,249
201536#4,068
201438#3,923
201324#5,484
201235#4,214
201127#5,061
201035#4,179
200923#5,889
200834#4,447
200721#6,319
200625#5,382
200517#6,815
200415#7,386
200319#6,050
200212#8,274
20017#12,049
20009#9,867
19996#12,681
19988#10,116
19975#13,719
19965#13,511
19958#9,548
19940–
19936#11,773
19927#10,471
19910–
199014#6,125
19898#8,755
19887#9,239
19870–
19860–
19850–
19849#6,808
19836#9,013
19825#10,514
19816#9,108
19805#10,390
19796#9,008

Nicknames for Amellia

Names like Amellia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Amellia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amellia, updated 20 October 2026.