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~Names For My Future Kiddos~

A collection of modernized vintage names I love and want to use in the future for my little bundles of joy.

Amelia is one of the hottest <a href="https://nameberry.com/girls-names">girls' names</a>, a successor to the megapopular Emma and Emily. Amelia, the Number 2 choice in England, is now also comfortably ensconced in the US Top 10, where it ranked as the third most popular name for girls in 2024. 
 
Now the most popular <a href="https://nameberry.com/search/girls-names/a">girl name starting with A</a>, Amelia is also a Top 10 girls' name in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland. So while Emilia and Emelia are sound-alike names, it's the Amelia version that's on the fast track. 
 
Amelia is derived from the German name Amalia, which in turn is a variation of Amalberga. The root, amal, is a Germanic word meaning "work," and in the context of female given names suggests themes of fertility as well as productivity. Aemilia, the name from which Emily is derived, is unrelated to Amelia.
 
Kids might associate Amelia with the wacky children's book character Amelia Bedelia, while adults could appreciate it as the eponymous heroine of the Henry Fielding novel. Amelia also appears in novels by Trollope and Thackeray, as a Harry Potter name, and as detective Amelia Peabody in the Elizabeth Peters series. Angelina Jolie played patrol cop Amelia Donaghy in The Bone Collector.
 
Amelia became a British royal name via the daughters of Kings George II and III. American heroes who have inspired a new generation of namesakes are aviatrix Amelia Earhart and feminist Amelia Bloomer.
 
Trivia tidbit: Amelia is the birth name of Minnie Driver. As for international forms, there's Amelie, Amalia, and Amelina, while nickname options include Milly, Mila, Lia, Mimi, and Ami.

Amelia

One of the four perfectly proper spellings of this name ranging from the spare (but poetic) Eliot to the full-blown Elliott. Elliott and Elliot are the two most popular, and they have given to almost the same number of baby boys in recent years.
 
Elliott has both the "-tt" ending and the 'El' beginning that are so popular among parents today, with popular picks like Everett and Emmett, Beckett and Bennett, Eli, Elijah, and Elias at the top of the charts. This one has the added plus of sounding contemporary, while also having appeared in the US charts every year since the 1880s.
 
Originally used as a surname, it derived from Elias, ultimately linking it to the Biblical Elijah. Also used for girls in the US, Elliott ranks highly in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, and Canada.
 
Notable bearers of this spelling include the dragon in the classic Disney film, Pete's Dragon and Elliott Taylor (from the movie E.T). 
 
This form currently ranks just behind Elliot, given to 2219 boys compared to 2370, however, when you combine all the spellings together, the name begins to feel like a Top 100 name in the US, ranking similarly to Andrew, Theo, and Everett.

Elliott

Irish place-name -- it's a river, a town, and an airport -- once popular but now supplanted by such newer immigrants as Saoirse and Seanan. 

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