Amelia (first name)

Amelia is a feminine given name. It may have originated from a mixture of the names Emilia and Amalie.

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Meanings

Latin: the eager, the ambitious

Old High German: the capable, the brave (possibly also short form of Old High German two-part Amal names, e.g. Amalberga, Amalfrieda, Amalgunde, Amalgard, Amalhilde, Amalinde, Amalswinta, etc. The short form relates accordingly to the first part, the defining word The name of the ruling family is derived from the Old Norse "aml" meaning hard work, agility, pushing ahead, driving ahead. [1] The meaning is therefore sometimes also used in literature as "efficiency". abbreviated.)

Arabic: trustworthy, beautiful

Well-known namesake

• Amelia Alicia Anscelly (* 1988), Malaysian badminton player
• Amelia Andersdotter (* 1987), Swedish politician, MEP
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (* 1984), American writer
• Amelia Bailey (1842-1932), Australian singer
• Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894), American suffragette
• Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911–2015), personality of the US civil rights movement
• Amelia Chellini (1880–1944), Italian actress
• Amelia Dyer (1837-1896), British serial killer
• Amelia Edwards (1831-1892), co-founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund
• Amelia Lily (* 1994), British pop singer
• Amelia Marshall (born 1958), American actress
• Amelia Mary Earhart (1897–1937), American aviation pioneer and suffragette
• Amelia Patti (1831-1915), Italian opera singer (soprano)
• Amelia Piccinini (1917–1979), Italian athlete
• Amelia Pidgeon (* 2001), British young actress
• Amelia Pietrangelo (* 1993), Canadian soccer player
• Amelia Pittock (* 1983), Australian squash player
• Amelia Racea (* 1994), Romanian gymnast
• Amelia Rose Blaire (* 20th century), American actress
• Amelia Rosselli (1930–1996), Italian poet
• Amelia Sarah Levetus (1853–1938), British-Austrian art historian
• Amelia Shankley (born 1972), British actress
• Amelia Smart (* 1998), Canadian ski racer
• Amelia Sophie of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (1711–1786), member of the House of Hanover
• Amelia Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (1772–1829), British nobleman
• Amelia Toledo (1926–2017), Brazilian sculptor, painter, draftsman and designer
• Amelia Valverde (* 1987), Costa Rican soccer coach
• Amelia Van Buren (* around 1856–1942), American photographer
• Amelia Warner (* 1982), British actress
• Amelia Wood (1930–2013), American javelin thrower and shot putter
• Catherine Amelia O'Brien (1881–1963), Irish glass painter
• Rizki Amelia Pradipta (* 1990), Indonesian badminton player

Web links

• Amelia on baby-vornamen.de