Fun Facts About the Name Amelina
- 93 babies named Amelina: U.S. records list 93 babies given the name Amelina from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Amelina Mean?
Amelina is a feminine name built on the root of Amelia or Amalia with the diminutive suffix -ina. The Germanic element amal means "work" or "labor," and the sense customarily given to names from this root is "industrious." The suffix, inherited from Latin and productive in Italian, gives a "little" or affectionate force, so the name can be read literally as "little Amalia" or "little industrious one."
The parent name Amelia is a Latinized form of the Germanic Amalia, but it was long written the same way as Aemilia, the old Roman feminine of Aemilius, a family name sometimes connected to Latin aemulus, "rival." That overlap has led some writers to give Amelia the sense "rival" or "emulating," while the derivation usually applied to Amalia and its diminutives stays with the Germanic "work" root.
Amelina Name History & Origins
Amelina belongs to the group of names formed on the Germanic element amal. That element appears in the name of the Amali (Amalings), the royal line of the Ostrogoths, and in medieval Germanic personal names such as Amalberga and Amalia. From Amalia came the German and Scandinavian Amalie, the French Amélie, and the Latinized Amelia, which became the most widely used of the forms.
The ending -ina is a diminutive suffix inherited from Latin and still productive in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, where it makes an affectionate or "little" version of a name. Amelina is best explained as Amelia or Amalia with that suffix, following the same pattern as Angelina from Angela or Paulina from Paula. Names of this type are found in Italian and also in German and Slavic usage, where the same ending marks endearment. Because the suffix is so widely shared, Amelina and similar-sounding names such as Emmeline can resemble each other without sharing a single origin.
How Popular is the Name Amelina?
Amelina has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2019. Its best rank was #9,496 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #9,496 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #13,566 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #12,322 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2020 | #9,595 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2019 | #9,783 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #14,630 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #14,723 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #15,090 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #12,354 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #12,504 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #15,531 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2006 | #17,356 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2004 | #16,272 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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Powerful and complete. You are good intellectually and require several outlets for your energies. You are not a builder but a planner, and you want others to carry out your plans. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
You are always looking for a chance to do your own thing, to be your own person, and to have things done your own way.
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