Amelia is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning “work.” In 2024 it was given to 12,740 girls in the United States.
Amelia at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Italian · English & American
Meaning
“work”
Pronunciation
/əˈmiːli.ə/
About the name Amelia
Amelia belongs to the Italian and English & American tradition. Its meaning — “work” — is the sense carried by its Italian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Amelia first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #3 in 2024, and in 2024 12,740 babies received the name — 268,334 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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