In 2025, 329 US girls were named Amelie, making it the 828th most common girls’ name of the year, down 118 places from #710 in 2024. That is 66 fewer than the 395 girls named Amelie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #603, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 466. For comparison, it was #638 in 2015 and #4,337 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amelie in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 7 babies. In all, 9,654 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,253 babies named Amelie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,638 US girls were named Amelie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 444. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,885 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amelie ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #343 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amelia (281,414 babies since 1880), Amalia (16,478 babies since 1880), Malka (6,505 babies since 1880) and Emelie (2,612 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Amylee, Amilee and Amillie are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.