Comments for AMELIA:

An ancient Greek name, Amelia (f), Amelios or Amelias (m). A famous bearer of the name was the philosopher Amelios, student of Plotinos.

-- Damis  3/3/2005

Young adult writer Amelia Atwater-Rhodes bears this name.

-- ravensshadow  3/4/2005

I pronounce Amelia as "ah-MAY-lya".

-- gaelruadh19  5/8/2005

Common nicknames of Amelia include Mia, Milly/Millie, Mils and Mila.

-- nafer1  5/18/2005

Amelia is a very elegant and classy name.

-- Tbird  6/23/2005

I'm sorry but I really, really don't like this name. I don't like how popular it is today.

-- AndrewJKD  7/14/2005

The name is pronounced Ah-Me-Lee-A. It is also the name of a character in Vanity Fair.

-- Amelia101  7/29/2005

This is my name. I think it is a beautiful, unique name. I do not know anyone else with this name, personally.

-- millyb  11/29/2005

I always loved Peggy Parish's "Amelia Bedelia". She's a riot!

-- anthelga333  12/13/2005

Amelia is the birth name of actress Minnie Driver.

-- Anonymous User  12/20/2005

Amelia Earheart was a famous bearer of this name. Also, among teens, the main character of the 'Princess Diaries' series by Meg Cabot is Mia Thermopolis, born as Amelia.

-- fawkes100  12/25/2005

My sister's name is Amelia. It's unique in a way. I think it would sound more classy if it wasn't so popular nowadays.

-- ender  1/23/2006

"Amelia" is also the name of a birth defect most commonly associated with the drug thalidomide. It is marked by the absence of limbs.

-- lone_dreamer  2/1/2006

Amelia is my name, I used to hate it, but now I love it. I like being called Mia by my friends and family. I know 2 other Amelia's! And by the way you pronounce it A-Meal-e-uh!

-- Miamaya  3/2/2006

My sister's name is Amelia, and I really like it. She goes by Mia most of the time. Some people pronounce it Uh-meal-ee-a (really Texan), and other people pronounce it Uh-meal-ya. I like Mia way better than just Amelia though. It's very unique.

-- Anonymous User  3/4/2006

Amelia is a name that I think grows on me. I don't know of anyone personally with this name. It doesn't seem to go out of fashion with the passage of time like some names do.

-- Anonymous User  4/25/2006

I love my name because it's unique, unlike those overused names! And it fits me.

-- Miamaya  5/23/2006

I love the name Amelia, my favourite name at the moment besides my kids' names. To me, an Amelia would be an adorably sweet girl, very caring but a little shy. The name is beautiful.

-- Lola Bug  6/9/2006

Amelia, or Mia, is the main character in Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries.

-- Tudor  6/14/2006

I love this name--it's mine. Seems that it's always been classic, but never overly trendy, and I hope it stays that way. Lone_dreamer's comment about the missing limbs makes it even cooler, somehow. And if anybody was thinking of naming their daughter after Amelia Bedelia--please don't! At least when people ask me if that's where I got my name, I can roll my eyes and say "No way." I would hate admitting to something like that, or having to lie about it.

-- Belldandy  7/29/2006

What kind of a name is Amelia, seriouly I think it's just so blah and outdated it sounds like somthing from the 1800s. Please just let this one die.

-- blu  7/30/2006

This is my name and I love it. It's NOT common, it's NOT bland, and it's original enough to be special but heard enough to not be freakish. Amelias also the name of that vampire chick on Underworld. Even though I hate that movie vampires are cool.

-- Anonymous User  8/8/2006

This is my name, and although I used to not like it I now think it is quite classy and mature, which I like. I don't like how it is becoming so popular though, it should be kept unique!

-- Anonymous User  8/9/2006

The Amelia Islands are a cluster of islands in America.

-- Anonymous User  8/10/2006

Ameliorer is a French verb meaning "to improve".

-- Anonymous User  8/11/2006

The name Amelia is the first name of a character named Amelia Donaghy in a movie called The Bone Collector (who was portrayed by Angelina Jolie), she was a patrol cop.

-- MundialNina93  8/21/2006

Nicknames could be Amy, Milly, Lia or Mia.

-- Anonymous User  8/28/2006

Listen to the German pronunciation of Amelia here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

-- _satu_  9/3/2006

It's pretty, but it's also the name of a birth defect in which one or more of the limbs are missing at birth.

-- demoiselle  9/25/2006

This is my baby daughter's name. We call her "Milly" most of the time. We really love it, and it's a name that has a lot of nickname options: Milly/Millie, Mia, Lia, Milla, etc.

-- my2miracles  12/19/2006

Who cares if it's a birth defect? No one really thinks about that when someone says their name is Amelia or something. Amelia is a gentle sounding name, and definitely feminime. It's unfortunate that the name is so popular nowadays. I know five Amelias under 11.

-- 7up  1/2/2007

This is my name, I love it and always have. It has always set me apart. I have never met another Amelia, and I love that! (though I don't like how popular it is becoming) It was one of the best things my parents ever did for me. Its origin is German and it means industrious.

-- millym  2/25/2007

I think it is a pretty name.

-- elysa  3/14/2007

Pronounced as "Ah-mah-lia".

-- Karcoolka  4/16/2007

This form was first used in Henry Fielding's novel of the name; it is either a variation of Amalia or Emilia.

-- Anonymous User  4/23/2007

The feline captin in Treasure Planet was Captain Amelia.

-- DontDissMadison  5/10/2007

Amelia Wil Tesla Seiruun is a character from the Slayers Japanese cartoon series.

-- Foof  6/8/2007

Pronounced as "AH-MEH-lya".
Nicknames: Amelka, Mel, Mia, Amelinka, Lia.

-- Maggie_Simpson  6/16/2007

I really like the sound of it, but I cannot shake the idea of Amelia Bedelia, the birth defect and meal worms (sp?). I wish I could because, save those associations, it's a really nice name.

-- nothingshortoftragic  6/21/2007

Pronounced as "Ah-mu-lya".

-- Janika  7/4/2007

It´s also the Czech and Slovak form.

-- Karcoolka  7/4/2007

What a pretty name!

-- rayne_is_lola  7/22/2007

I like this name, it is sweet and it will never go out of style. I really like the nicknames Mia, Lia, and Amy. I like the combination of Amelia May or Amelia Margorie. I always picture a sweet, shy girl whom everyone loves. It is such a classic name and something everyone says is so pretty.

-- blackitten14  8/6/2007

Amelia Sachs is a character in the Lincoln Rhyme book serias by Jeffery Deaver (i.e. The Bone Collector, The 12th Card, The Empty Chair, The Vanished Man, Cold Moon, et cetera.)

-- sharonrenee  8/31/2007

Czech actress Lucie Zedníčková & Vítek Pokorný have a daughter Amelia Pokorná, born at 2004, she weighed 3 kg and 50 cm.
Czech Ski Acrobat Aleš Valenta & Elen Černá have a daughter Amelia Valentová, born at 2004, she weighed 3,3 kg and 49 cm.

-- Maggie_Simpson  10/8/2007

I always remember the Amelia Jane books by Enid Blyton when I see this name, and when I was kid and I read those books I used to despise it, but now it's really grown on me a lot and I love it. It's classy and elegant; a name that would age well and yet still sound pretty enough for a little girl. An all round perfect name!

-- Laurisgirl  1/2/2008

Amelia Jean was the name of a little girl in the movie Split Infinity.

-- Anonymous User  1/5/2008

Pronounced Ah-meh-lee-ah in Spanish and Portuguese.

-- Anonymous User  2/25/2008

I really, really, really like this name. I don't know why I like it because I hate Emily and Emma.

-- jasmineenimsaj  3/1/2008

My, what a hideous name! It would be even more ridiculous if somebody named Emily (even for their middle name) called their child Amelia. It is so horrible, I think, because of the word meal being in it.

-- chrissiali  3/2/2008

This is a horrible name. For three reasons:
1. Birth Defect
2. Amelia Bedila
3. It sounds like an obese child: "A meal-ya!"

-- Anonymous User  6/6/2008

Amelia is a Latin rooted name. Amelia is common in Spain due to the Latin roots. (PURE) is the meaning of the name. Pronounced Amai-lya, the A is of the vowel sound of a short O like in the word fall. Italy and Portugal is also common since the like countries all have Latin roots.

-- Molina  6/8/2008

Amelia is a very pretty name as told to me by many people. I prefer the name Mia but yet, no one catches on. Oh and by the way, that comment about losing limbs is absolutely rude and obnoxious. Keep those things to yourself please! :)

-- glittermylife2008  7/29/2008

Amelia Bones is a character in J.K. Rowling's famous Harry Potter series. She is the aunt of Susan Bones and works for the Ministry of Magic.

-- MaggAims2Live  8/19/2008

While it's not as pretty to me as the variant Emilia, I still like this name. It sounds girly in a good way.

-- bpheit  9/7/2008

I really like names that're unique without being too odd. Amelia is just a lovely name all around. It is quite feminine without overdoing the girlyness. It has a subtle beauty with a hint of intrigue as well.

-- mom2zeke  11/1/2008

I think this is a very nice name. A few years ago, I jokingly told someone that my full name was Amelia and that Amy was my nickname. They believed me and now many people call me Amelia even though it's not my name. They don't believe that my real name is just Amy.

-- Anonymous User  11/11/2008

This is the name on my birth certificate, but I've been called Amy since practically the moment I was born. I don't really like the name that much for me, but I think it's pretty in general. I hate that there are nicknames like "Milly" derived from it, too, I'm so glad my parents nicknamed me Amy.

-- horsehealeramy  12/20/2008

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American fiction writer, wrote her first short novel "In the Forests of the Night" when she was thirteen. Predominantly write about vampires and the supernatural.

-- Anonymous User  12/31/2008

This is a Polish variant, too.

-- Anonymous User  1/5/2009

I'm an Amelia, called Millie. Millie has seen me through my childhood and I know Amelia can see me through adulthood. I've known many Amelias, mostly within five years of me (born 1990), but just about all have had a different nickname. In Australia it seems it was one of the leading names of the classic resurgence of the 90s, along with Charlotte.

-- Anonymous User  2/13/2009

It's also Polish variant, and it's pronunciation is
a-MEH-lee-a.

-- Sharp92  4/6/2009

Amelia Tan is Destroyx's (of the band Angelspit) real name.

-- Kerules  4/10/2009

My name is Amelia and I don't really like it when people call me Amelia Bedelia. It's SUPER annoying! Also, I have people call me Amy because of that. So overall I don't like the name Amelia, I wish it was legal to change names.

-- X_XemogurlX_X  5/5/2009

Amelia is a beautiful name, I love it, it is as sweet as a flower.

-- Gods.daughter  5/13/2009

The first time I heard this name on a real person I liked it. It gives a warm and friendly feeling yet not too overly familiar. I grew to LOVE the name over time. We named our new little daughter this. She is just as sweet and gentle and happy as her name sounds. We like Millie for a nickname though I love the name Amelia so much I will probably always call her her given name. I have gotten a lot of compliments on her name as well. And once in awhile I can tell it's not an instant hit with a person:) Oh well to have a name that is beautiful but still somewhat unique not everyone should fall head over heals for it.

-- mom2zeke  5/30/2009

Amelia was the name of Lara Croft's mother in the Tomb Raider games. After finding a sword in a temple in Nepal, Amelia grabs it and disappears. Years later, Lara finds her as a thrall in Helheim.

-- bananarama  8/6/2009

Most beautiful name for a girl. Wow. It is amazing. I love the way it sounds.
this name delivers beauty and grace.

-- italiannames  8/12/2009

I find it interesting that in the magazine Parents, Amelia is predicted to be in the top 10 names in popularity by 2019. I don't know if I see that, or I hope not but interesting nonetheless.

They also had Violet, Lila, Piper listed for girls. (That's all I remember right now.)

-- mom2zeke  9/24/2009

I think this name is pretty but not amazing. Since I read the book "Our Only May Amelia" I thought that May Amelia was one of the best combinations ever and thought differently of the name.

-- Milena Scialfa  10/18/2009

Comments for AMÉLIA:

Amélia is also the Slovak form. Name Day: 10th July.

-- Maggie_Simpson  11/12/2007

Pronounced 'a-MEH-lee-a' in Portuguese.

-- mellon.collie  2/2/2008

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