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Amelie vs Amerie

American parents have registered 9,654 Amelies since 1880, against 2,648 Ameries. Amelie is still ahead, with 329 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amelie against Amerie, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amelie Amerie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Amelie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1886 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Amelie had 309 and Amerie had 162.

Side by side

  Amelie Amerie
Total US births 9,6542,648
Most in one year 466174
Babies in 2025 32960
Estimated living today 9,4002,600
Median age today 1213
Peak year 20132008
Best rank 603rd girls1,380th girls
Rank in 2025 827th2,822nd
First recorded 18862002
Girls / boys 9,654 / 02,648 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amelie Amerie
France 99,050 Amélie5
England and Wales 18,44961

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amelie and Amerie.