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How popular is the name Amelia?
Births per year, rank history and how many Amelias are alive today.
Amelia is one of the ten most popular girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 2nd in 2024 with 2,448 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2012, when it was the most popular girls' name outright, given to 7,061 babies. Amelia fell out of the top 100 after 1914 and returned in 1994, a classic revival pattern. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 96,000 babies have been named Amelia in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Amelia you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Amelias born in England and Wales are between 11 and 35, and there are at least 130,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 34% chance that at least one of them will be called Amelia.
How many babies are named Amelia each year?
Where does Amelia rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Amelia most popular?
Amelia peaked in 2012, when 7,061 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Amelia?
At least 130,000 people named Amelia born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Amelia?
Most living Amelias are between 11 and 35; the most common age is about 13.
Is Amelia becoming more or less popular?
Reviving: it has returned to the top 100 after time away.