Amelie is a German name, a modern form of Amalia. This was originally a short form of medieval Germanic names beginning with ‘amal’ meaning ‘vigorous, brave’. Examples are Amalberga and Amalgunde.
Amelie is a first name for girls.
The name Amelie 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, Amelie ranks 637. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Amelie. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Amelie.
Amelie is a German name, a modern form of Amalia. This was originally a short form of medieval Germanic names beginning with ‘amal’ meaning ‘vigorous, brave’. Examples are Amalberga and Amalgunde.
Amelie is rare... in the US, but known since the 1880s.
Amelie Poulain
Amelie is the main character in the same-named 2001 French movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, which quickly became a cult film.The original French title is »Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain«.
Amelie Lens (*1990)
This musician comes from Antwerp in Belgium and is a successful DJane and music producer.
When you hear the name Amelie, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Amelie? Are you also called Amelie? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
is the name of a small municipality in the south of France.
Ruthsweg is a street name in Hamburg, Germany, named after the painter and graphic artist Amelie Ruths.
You may not know anyone named Amelie, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 33 states are home to women and girls named Amelie. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Amelie living in one state or another. If your name is Amelie and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Louisiana, which has the most people named Amelie relative to the population, you still have to ask 6,294 women and girls their names before you hear Amelie as an answer just once.
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 Amelie 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.
If your name is Amelie 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Amelie, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Amelie
Amelie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
E
L
I
E
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
E
L
I
E
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. Amelie sounds like this:
