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
- Peak · boys
- 1915 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 630since 1914
Amel over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #5,434 | 16 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | — | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #6,056 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
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| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,904 | 9 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,588 | 11 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,229 | 14 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,614 | 11 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,502 | 12 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,165 | 14 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,188 | 13 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,730 | 9 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,878 | 15 | |
| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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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.
See more about Amel
- 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)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1915 at #1,878 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1919, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 25.4% of all boys named Amel (160) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2020, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 63 | #1,878 (1915) | #2,603 |
| 1920s | 96 | #2,229 (1924) | #2,881 |
| 1930s | 20 | #2,680 (1937) | #3,075 |
| 1940s | 29 | #2,871 (1940) | #3,267 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,373 (1952) | #3,373 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 11 | #6,089 (1987) | #6,680 |
| 1990s | 52 | #5,928 (1995) | #7,682 |
| 2000s | 160 | #3,842 (2001) | #5,160 |
| 2010s | 127 | #4,848 (2010) | #6,859 |
| 2020s | 61 | #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 1917
Top boys' names in 1917
More about 1917
boys
925,482 boys got a published name in 1917; 1 in 71,191 of them was named Amel, which outranked 52.5% of the 4,602 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,091Wilborn14
- #2,091Willmer14
- #2,091Woodward14
- #2,188Amel13
- #2,188Aden13
- #2,188Akira13
- #2,188Alvaro13
- #2,280Abbott12
- #2,280Abie12
- #2,280Alven12
Tied with 91 names at #2,188; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.