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Amelia

US babies given the name, 1880–2025, from SSA records

In 2025, 12,699 girls were named Amelia: #4 among girls' names that year. The most girls in one year was 13,041, in 2021.

Babies named Amelia each year

GirlsBoys
Amelia: babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, girls and boys. Peak 2021 with 13,049.03.8k7.5k11.3k15k18801900192019401960198020002020

Both lines are drawn because the SSA files list Amelia for girls and for boys; they share one scale, so the smaller line can sit close to the floor. A break in a line is a year under the SSA's 5-birth floor, not a drop to zero.

Babies in 2025Girls 12,699
Boys 6
Rank: girls #4, boys #10,771
Peak year, both sexes202113,049 babies that year (girls + boys)
Peak year by sexGirls 2021: 13,041
Boys 2004: 14
The single year with the most babies of that sex
Highest rank everGirls #3 in 2024
Boys #2,297 in 1930
Earliest year it reached that rank
All-time recorded births281,414Every listed year, 1880–2025: girls 281,130, boys 284
Years listedGirls 146 of 146
Boys 39 of 146
Years with 5 or more babies of that sex

Every year: babies and rank

YearGirlsRankBoysRank
202512,699#46#10,771
202412,786#39#8,353
202312,365#47#9,814
202212,415#413#6,497
202113,041#48#8,873
202012,802#66#10,673
201912,944#714#6,118
201812,405#89#8,192
201711,870#812#6,709
201610,809#107#9,714
20159,878#12under 5 or none—
20148,805#159#8,168
20138,052#178#8,836
20127,249#23under 5 or none—
20116,374#307#9,656
20105,464#41under 5 or none—
20094,705#555#12,589
20084,352#68under 5 or none—
20074,194#777#9,831
20064,065#835#12,138
20053,912#846#10,198
20043,354#9614#5,509
20033,097#111under 5 or none—
20022,444#139under 5 or none—
20011,638#199under 5 or none—
20001,531#207under 5 or none—
19991,421#225under 5 or none—
19981,425#215under 5 or none—
19971,317#228under 5 or none—
19961,292#222under 5 or none—
19951,207#237under 5 or none—
19941,255#226under 5 or none—
19931,248#2245#8,744
19921,345#214under 5 or none—
19911,536#1945#8,275
19901,513#194under 5 or none—
19891,265#2168#5,644
19881,130#232under 5 or none—
19871,006#2545#6,997
19861,020#2525#6,760
19851,015#249under 5 or none—
19841,094#2326#5,587
1983762#3046#5,509
1982832#297under 5 or none—
1981848#287under 5 or none—
1980768#316under 5 or none—
1979702#3375#6,091
1978643#339under 5 or none—
1977601#362under 5 or none—
1976523#394under 5 or none—
1975523#387under 5 or none—
1974507#399under 5 or none—
1973442#436under 5 or none—
1972406#458under 5 or none—
1971481#432under 5 or none—
1970493#445under 5 or none—
1969465#445under 5 or none—
1968390#489under 5 or none—
1967450#445under 5 or none—
1966431#452under 5 or none—
1965475#431under 5 or none—
1964503#438under 5 or none—
1963503#433under 5 or none—
1962494#436under 5 or none—
1961571#4075#4,080
1960542#414under 5 or none—
1959502#424under 5 or none—
1958484#427under 5 or none—
1957520#404under 5 or none—
1956526#392under 5 or none—
1955530#383under 5 or none—
1954511#380under 5 or none—
1953552#360under 5 or none—
1952549#350under 5 or none—
1951532#345under 5 or none—
1950483#357under 5 or none—
1949589#320under 5 or none—
1948564#3306#3,330
1947539#343under 5 or none—
1946547#318under 5 or none—
1945474#312under 5 or none—
1944476#307under 5 or none—
1943559#292under 5 or none—
1942543#290under 5 or none—
1941529#2796#3,148
1940504#279under 5 or none—
1939489#282under 5 or none—
1938570#265under 5 or none—
1937647#245under 5 or none—
1936580#2545#3,563
1935604#2557#2,962
1934553#264under 5 or none—
1933608#246under 5 or none—
1932637#2439#2,647
1931591#2487#3,104
1930679#23612#2,297
1929687#2295#3,980
1928755#227under 5 or none—
1927754#2356#3,793
1926746#2367#3,397
1925889#2165#4,212
1924910#216under 5 or none—
1923965#205under 5 or none—
19221,032#195under 5 or none—
1921995#2007#3,538
19201,054#190under 5 or none—
19191,085#181under 5 or none—
19181,115#183under 5 or none—
19171,160#173under 5 or none—
19161,159#167under 5 or none—
19151,115#165under 5 or none—
1914926#156under 5 or none—
1913721#161under 5 or none—
1912672#160under 5 or none—
1911430#174under 5 or none—
1910449#163under 5 or none—
1909388#163under 5 or none—
1908370#163under 5 or none—
1907380#163under 5 or none—
1906358#160under 5 or none—
1905365#155under 5 or none—
1904353#153under 5 or none—
1903347#150under 5 or none—
1902355#149under 5 or none—
1901350#140under 5 or none—
1900398#146under 5 or none—
1899332#140under 5 or none—
1898360#140under 5 or none—
1897408#121under 5 or none—
1896365#131under 5 or none—
1895379#125under 5 or none—
1894390#119under 5 or none—
1893385#114under 5 or none—
1892385#118under 5 or none—
1891353#112under 5 or none—
1890368#109under 5 or none—
1889346#110under 5 or none—
1888358#108under 5 or none—
1887344#93under 5 or none—
1886326#101under 5 or none—
1885298#102under 5 or none—
1884315#96under 5 or none—
1883262#97under 5 or none—
1882252#102under 5 or none—
1881235#93under 5 or none—
1880221#96under 5 or none—

Rank among all names of that sex in that year, by the SSA's rule. “under 5 or none” is a year the SSA file does not list: fewer than 5 babies of that sex, possibly none.

Rank in each decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
2020–2025 (so far)#4#8,718
2010s#12#9,704
2000s#99#11,861
1990s#214#14,315
1980s#263#7,478
1970s#405#9,878
1960s#442#6,938
1950s#392under 5 or none every year
1940s#306#4,855
1930s#255#3,678
1920s#214#4,648
1910s#171under 5 or none every year
1900s#160under 5 or none every year
1890s#120under 5 or none every year
1880s#100under 5 or none every year

Rank among all names of that sex by births summed over the decade.

Years under the floor

Girls: listed in every year, 1880–2025.

Boys: under 5 or none in 1880–1920, 1922–1924, 1928, 1933–1934, 1937–1940, 1942–1947, 1949–1960, 1962–1978, 1980–1982, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994–2003, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015.

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About this page

Why this name has its own page

These pages are the 5 girls' and 5 boys' names given to the most babies in 2025, the newest year in the SSA file this site is built from. The build picks them from that year's file each time it runs — most births first, ties in alphabetical order, the SSA's own ranking rule — so a new SSA year can change the list. Any other name is on the front page lookup.

Where every number comes from

US Social Security Administration, "Beyond the Top 1000 Names" national data (names.zip): one text file per year of birth, 1880 to 2025, each line a name, a sex and a number of babies. The SSA address is www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip; ssa.gov refuses requests from this site's build server, so the file was taken from the Internet Archive's copy of that address, captured 2026-09-28 (14:33 UTC) and fetched 2026-09-30: web.archive.org/web/20260928143357id_/www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip. SHA-256 cd78e975ed7bb358e018dd62fbe14ced89295e9581c49172ca4eedcb011b3724.

The SSA lists a name for a sex in a year only when at least 5 babies got it, so every total here adds up the listed years only and is a floor on the true number. The file covers people with a Social Security number, so early decades count people who applied for one later in life. Spellings are separate names: this page counts “Amelia” exactly as spelled.