Amel
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amel is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Tunisia it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Enamel.
- TNTunisia1 in 536◐
- DZAlgeria1 in 2.5K
- FRFrance1 in 5.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 280 ●
- 1 in 4.0K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
91K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Enamel.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #619 | 12,390 | 54K rec. | 1 in 5.5K | 12K | Amel | 280 |
| DZ Algeria | #76 | 9,799 | 11K rec. | — | listed | Amel | 62 |
| TN Tunisia | #27 | 7,423 | 5.1K rec. | — | 1.4K | Amel | 60 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 3,392 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Amel | 17 |
| EG Egypt | — | 3,145 | 892 rec. | — | — | Amel | 59 |
| US United States | — | 1,093 | 3.9K rec. | 1 in 304K | 1.1K | Amel | 172 |
| MX Mexico | — | 872 | 988 rec. | — | — | Amel | 44 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 849 | 929 rec. | — | — | Amel | 10 |
| BE Belgium | — | 768 | 1.1K rec. | — | 101 | Amel | 34 |
| SY Syria | — | 753 | 797 rec. | — | — | Amel | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 632 | 347 rec. | — | 94 | Amel | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 627 | 595 rec. | 1 in 16K | 627 | Amel | 25 |
Roughly 12K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 5.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French112K62%
- Arabic24K13%
- English11K6%
- Spanish6.5K4%
- Indonesian2.7K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 111,753 | 62% |
| Arabic | 24,030 | 13% |
| English | 10,553 | 6% |
| Spanish | 6,482 | 4% |
| Indonesian | 2,733 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Amel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Amel kan vara en sydslavisk form av det arabiska → Amal. Det används av både män och kvinnor.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Walloon, Amel (a municipality of Belgium)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, diarrhea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 15 |
| 1916 | 9 |
| 1917 | 13 |
| 1918 | 14 |
| 1919 | 7 |
| 1920 | 9 |
| 1921 | 12 |
| 1922 | 7 |
| 1923 | 11 |
| 1924 | 14 |
| 1925 | 11 |
| 1926 | 9 |
| 1927 | 8 |
| 1928 | 8 |
| 1929 | 7 |
| 1933 | 6 |
| 1934 | 6 |
| 1937 | 8 |
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1942 | 6 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1952 | 6 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 21 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 17 |
| 2004 | 20 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 14 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2008 | 16 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 18 |
| 2012 | 19 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 17 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 20 |
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 20 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 12 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 16 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 67 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Amal Kumar Raychaudhurib. 1923INnot in their usual nameperson (1923-2005)
- Amal Duttab. 1930INnot in their usual nameIndian footballer (1930-2016)
- Amal Ayouchb. 1966MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan pharmacist and actress
- Amel Larrieuxb. 1973USAmerican singer-songwriter and keyboardist
- Amal Clooneyb. 1978LBnot in their usual nameLebanese-British-French barrister and human right activist
- Amel Mekićb. 1981BABosnian judoka
- Amal El-Mohtarb. 1984CAnot in their usual nameCanadian poet and speculative fiction writer
- Amel Bentb. 1985FRFrench singer
- Amel Tukab. 1991BABosnian athlete
- Amel Majrib. 1993TNTunisian and French footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 77 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 12K | #590 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1990 | 1.4K | #10 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #8,031 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 740 | #8,031 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 627 | #2,360 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 534 | #587 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 529 | #293 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 406 | #5,276 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 401 | #1,332 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 333 | #2,805 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 309 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 266 | #1,197 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 580 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Amel?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Amel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Amel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Amel in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled amel.
- How common is Amel compared with other names?
- In France, Amel is the 619th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Amel a male or female name?
- Amel is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Amel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Enamel.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amel” — the 619th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.