Given name & surname
Amela
Amela is a feminine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Amela isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 467
- 0 boys · 467 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #8,398 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- 0%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,398 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was virtually unchanged in 2021–2025 compared with 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,183 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 88,558 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amela’s family of names
Amela may belong to the same name family as AMMELA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amela
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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