Ameliia
A rare respelling of Amelia that only took hold this decade: more girls got it last year than in any year before, yet it still sits past 1,500th place, so most Poles have never met one. The Latin root points to industry, someone hard-working.
Ameliia Pronunciation
Ameliia is pronounced ah-MELY-yah (/aˈmɛljja/).
What Ameliia means
Where Ameliia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ameliia traces back to Latin, and the meaning that settled on it is plain enough: work, the temper of someone industrious. The doubled i in this spelling is rare, yet the name underneath is one Poland knows well. Its everyday variant is Amelia, the form you meet on documents and in classrooms.
A name that means industrious makes a curious sort of gift. The child had no say in it. The word waits on the class register each September, read out by a teacher with thirty other names to reach. Still, the meaning describes a quality rather than forecasting a life.
Poland keeps a name-day for Amelia on the 30th of July, so anyone carrying the name has a fixed date for imieniny, a small annual claim on the calendar. The Latin sense of pracowita, of steady work, gives the name its backbone. In softer moments it shortens to Amelka.
How many people are named Ameliia
1 in 58555 women in Poland is named Ameliia. 385 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1513 among female names.
Ameliia's popularity over time
32 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #430 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.
Where parents choose Ameliia
Ameliia is most popular in Łódź, 420% above the national average (25 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+135%) and West Pomeranian (+25%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Pomeranian, 65% and 28% below average respectively.
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Łódź
+420%1 in 5,069 babies
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Lower Silesian
+135%1 in 11,224 babies
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West Pomeranian
+25%1 in 21,106 babies
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Lesser Poland
−65%1 in 75,639 babies
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Pomeranian
−28%1 in 36,830 babies
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Greater Poland
−14%1 in 30,749 babies
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Łódź+420% 25 born1 in 5,069 babies+420%
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Lower Silesian+135% 14 born1 in 11,224 babies+135%
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West Pomeranian+25% 4 born1 in 21,106 babies+25%
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Silesian+16% 10 born1 in 22,758 babies+16%
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Opole+14% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies+14%
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Masovian−3% 13 born1 in 27,251 babies−3%
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Greater Poland−14% 7 born1 in 30,749 babies−14%
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Pomeranian−28% 4 born1 in 36,830 babies−28%
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Lesser Poland−65% 3 born1 in 75,639 babies−65%
Ameliia as a middle name
Ameliia is a first name for 385 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5485th, between Ameli (2) and Amelija (2).
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