Amelie vs Ames
American parents have registered 9,654 Amelies since 1880, against 1,865 Ameses. Amelie is still ahead, with 329 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Amelie Ames
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
Of the 124 years in which either name was published, Ames for 64 years and Amelie for 60 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1886–1919 Amelie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1920–1989 Ames ahead, apart from 5 short spells
- 1990–2025 Amelie ahead
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Amelie | Ames | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 9,654 | 1,865 |
| Most in one year | 466 | 93 |
| Babies in 2025 | 329 | 92 |
| Estimated living today | 9,400 | 1,600 |
| Median age today | 12 | 9 |
| Peak year | 2013 | 2023 |
| Best rank | 603rd girls | 1,754th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 827th | 1,753rd |
| First recorded | 1886 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 9,654 / 0 | 10 / 1,855 |
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.
Which name is older
Half of the Amelies alive today are over 12; half the Ameses are over 9. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Amelie Louisiana (3.3×), California (2.7×), Florida (2.6×)
- Ames Minnesota (7.4×), California (3.1×), Texas (2.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amelie and Ames.