Amelie

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Amélie in ES Spain, CZ Czechia, IT Italy and Amelié in AR Argentina.

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●

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Amelie is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Finnish given name8.7K records spelled Amelie3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Spain, Estonia, Sweden

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Amélie

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2.8K records spelled Amelie2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Amélie

• Kazakh given name1.0K records spelled Amelie48 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Croatia, Türkiye

  Languages: Kazakh, Russian, Uzbek

  Also written Амели, Ameli, Амелі, Amélie, Амелие

• Catalan given name877 records spelled Amelie2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain

  Also written Amélie

• a separate given name788 records spelled Amelie6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium

  Also written Amélie, Ameĺie, Amelié, Amélié, Amèlie

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Amelie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, weibl. Vom., Nebenform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Romanian, hindrance, obstacle, impediment, difficulty

  as a word·kaikki.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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 101 years between 1886–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Amalia of Solms-Braunfelsb. 1602DEnot in their usual nameRegent of Orange (1602-1675)
• Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadtb. 1754DEnot in their usual nameHereditary Princess of Baden
• Empress Amélie of Brazilb. 1812FREmpress consort of Brasil (1812–1873)
• Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenbergb. 1831DEnot in their usual nameWife of Miguel I of Portugal (1831–1909)
• Princess Louise of Belgiumb. 1858BEnot in their usual nameBelgian Royal (1858–1924)
• Amélie of Orléansb. 1865FRQueen Consort of Portugal (1889 - 1908)
• Elena Poniatowskab. 1932FRnot in their usual nameFrench-born Mexican journalist and author
• Amélie Mauresmob. 1979FRFrench tennis player
• Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästriklandb. 1982SEnot in their usual nameyoungest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden
• Stéphanie Frappartb. 1983FRnot in their usual nameFrench football referee (born 1983)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 837 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amelie?

We estimate roughly 119 thousand people bear Amelie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Amelie have the most bearers?

We estimate about 98 thousand people bear Amelie in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled amelie.

Where is Amelie most common?

Amelie is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 691 people carrying it.

How common is Amelie compared with other names?

In France, Amelie is the 189th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.

Is Amelie a male or female name?

Amelie 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 Amelie mean?

Recorded meaning: Amelie (Amélie) är en fransk form av → Amalia.