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The first name 
Amalia

Amalia is a first name for girls.

Amalia is a common name for girls!

The name Amalia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Amalia ranks 625. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Amalia. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Amalia.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Amalia

What does the name 
Amalia mean?

Amalia is an Old German name, originally a short form of medieval Germanic names beginning with ‘amal’ meaning ‘vigorous, brave’. Examples are Amalberga and Amalgunde.

Amalia has... always been a rare name in the US, but its popularity has been rising quickly since 2010.

Amalia -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Amalia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Amalia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Amalia have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Amalia even more than any other time: in 1885, it holds its present record of rank #464 in the list of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Amalia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Amalia 2022 among young parents?

Amalia has never been ranked higher than #464. In 2022, she rivaled the 528 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 513 girls named Amalia were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Amalia were born, there have been 128 newborns who received this name.

Amalia has 6 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With six letters, the name Amalia is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, m, a, l, i and a

If you take all the letters in the name Amalia – A, m, a, l, i and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Amaila or Malaia.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Amalia

If your name is Amalia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Amalia

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Amalia, you can simply say:

Apple

Mouse

Apple

Lion

Igloo

Apple

This is how the name Amalia is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Amalia in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Amalia

Amalia

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Amalia

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Amalia is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
M
A
L
I
A

Have you ever waved the name Amalia

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
M
A
L
I
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Amalia sounds like this: