Amel

#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 57.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
1915 · 15 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
630
since 1914

Amel over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201914peak #4,791, 2000peak #1,878, 1915girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,83816#8,2439
2024#7,96713#8,3129
2023#8,98911—
2022#8,54212#6,82812
2021#8,46412#7,08911
2020#6,92316#4,69820
2019#6,17619#6,40613
2018#6,01020#6,70312
2017#8,29913#6,68512
2016#7,60215#5,78915
2015#6,97717#5,28917
2014#8,05314#8,1309
2013#11,0009#9,6557
2012#6,57619#5,48216
2011#6,85518#9,6007
2010#7,51316#4,84819
2009#11,4599#5,33417
2008#8,52914#5,48716
2007#9,53912#5,43416
2006#9,28612#5,78114
2005#10,12810#6,63411
2004#9,26411#4,26420
2003#6,57617#5,03515
2002#7,04515#5,39513
2001#6,61916#3,84221
2000#4,79124#4,38917
1999#8,80510#9,9125
1998#11,1387#9,6315
1997—#8,1106
1996#8,8129#7,9716
1995#8,7669#5,9289
1994#9,5868#6,9687
1993#10,5887—
1992#9,4918—
1991#13,1475#6,5197
1990#12,9585#6,4157
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1988—#7,2705
1987#11,3255#6,0896
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1981#10,4115—
1980#10,3925—
1979#7,3138#6,0565
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1973#8,4235—
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1928—#3,0768
1927—#3,1518
1926—#2,9049
1925—#2,58811
1924—#2,22914
1923—#2,61411
1922—#3,5327
1921—#2,50212
1920—#2,9679
1919—#3,3917
1918—#2,16514
1917—#2,18813
1916—#2,7309
1915—#1,87815
1914—#3,2645
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five boys were named Amel! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1930–1932, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Amel is popular in 1914

No state had 5 or more boys named Amel in 1914, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Amel
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 69 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #8,243)
  • 3,545 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #8,243)
  • 2,954 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1915 at #1,878 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 1919, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 56,572
  • Highest: 1 in 56,572 boys born in 1915 were named Amel (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 25.4% of all boys named Amel (160) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
  • Mostly boys until 2020, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s63#1,878 (1915)#2,603
1920s96#2,229 (1924)#2,881
1930s20#2,680 (1937)#3,075
1940s29#2,871 (1940)#3,267
1950s6#3,373 (1952)#3,373
1960s0——
1970s5#6,056 (1979)#6,056
1980s11#6,089 (1987)#6,680
1990s52#5,928 (1995)#7,682
2000s160#3,842 (2001)#5,160
2010s127#4,848 (2010)#6,859
2020s61#4,698 (2020)#7,034

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Amel in 1914

boys
#3,264
5 births · 1 in 130,952 boys

Top boys' names in 1914

  1. #1John37,947
  2. #2William29,753
  3. #3James26,262
  4. #4Robert21,188
  5. #5Joseph18,829
  6. #6George17,602
  7. #7Charles16,937
  8. #8Edward12,319
  9. #9Frank12,002
  10. #10Walter8,962
  11. #3,264Amel5
More about 1914

boys

654,762 boys got a published name in 1914; 1 in 130,952 of them was named Amel, which outranked 13.2% of the 3,759 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amel
  1. #2,915Zachariah6
  2. #2,915Zane6
  3. #2,915Zoltan6
  4. #3,264Amel5
  5. #3,264Abbey5
  6. #3,264Ada5
  7. #3,264Adan5

Tied with 495 names at #3,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1913
Risers
  1. ↑ 817Gilmore#1,803 → #986
  2. ↑ 647Santos#1,580 → #933
  3. ↑ 546Lorenza#1,365 → #819
  4. ↑ 534Bobby#1,441 → #907
  5. ↑ 534Gino#1,441 → #907
Fallers
  1. ↓ 918Bernardo#950 → #1,868
  2. ↓ 692Eston#995 → #1,687
  3. ↓ 692Rolf#995 → #1,687
  4. ↓ 613Orson#995 → #1,608
  5. ↓ 458West#930 → #1,388

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1914 →