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Amelya

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PlaceYearRecorded usagePublished birthsRankNotes
Canada2025Girls16 · preliminary14952025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published.
France2025Girls50 (rounded to 5)784Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published.
England & Wales2025Girls54201Published ranks differ from ranks calculated over visible rows. Counts retained; automated trend labels withheld. Rank basis: source published.
United States2025Girls205917Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts.

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Name history: Documented in historical Turkish-language kanto performers’ names

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Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr’s 2018 Sabancı University thesis on kanto theatre documents the exact spelling Amelya in performers’ names, including Amelya Özcan and Büyük Amelya. PDF pages 10 and 27 (printed pages 2 and 19) supply examples in the historical theatre discussion and references. This establishes use in the source’s account of late Ottoman and early Republican theatre; it is not an earliest-use claim, a birth-name determination, or evidence of Turkish, Arabic or Germanic etymology. Credit: Erik Aldritch Charlemagne Blackthorne-O’Barr, Song and stage, gender and nation: the emergence of kanto in late Ottoman İstanbul (2018), Sabancı University. Source: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/36731/1/10191268_ErikBlackthorneOBarr.pdf. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized only the exact-spelling historical occurrences and qualified what they establish. Original source rights retained; no images or source passages reproduced.

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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence

Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence

License: Open Government Licence v3.0

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U.S. Social Security Administration

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Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.

Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.

License: Statistics Canada Open Licence

Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.

Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.

License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)

Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.

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