Amelya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 36 babies a year in the US.
Amelya by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Amelya. In the US, 36 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 44 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Amelya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Amelya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Ameliawork, industriousness2,153 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ameyaboundless or infinite18 in England and Wales (2025)
- Amelawork; a form of Amalia21 in the US (2017)
- Amalyawork; a form of amalia16 in the US (2017)
- Ameliyastriving; respelling of amelia16 in the US (2017)
- Amulyapriceless, precious8 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Amelya
Names that are said the same way as Amelya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Amaliawork or labor491 in the US (2017)
- Amiliawork, industriousness; a spelling variant of Amelia173 in the US (2017)
- Ameliahwork, industriousness; a modern respelling of Amelia57 in the US (2017)
- Amelliaindustrious, striving; a variant of Amelia49 in the US (2017)
- Ameiliastriving; a form of amelia or amilia16 in the US (2017)
- Amaliahwork of god; a form of Amalia5 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Amelya
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