Amelia (name)

Amelia (name)

Infobox Given Name Revised
name = Amelia


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pronunciation= A-meal-yuh, A-mil-e-a, A-meal-e-a
gender = Female
meaning = "work", "industrious," "fertile"
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related names = Emily
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Amelia is a female given name. It is derived from the Germanic word "amal" meaning "work", and means "industrious" and "fertile". The diminutive is usually Amy, Lia, or Mia. Millie is sometimes used as the diminutive form in the United Kingdom.

Etymologists believe that the name Amelia is unrelated to the Latin "gens" name Aemilia, which was translated into English as Emily. Equivalents of Aemilia/Emily in romance languages do sound similar to Amelia (e.g. Italian Emilia) but have a different origin from this Germanic name.

Related names and common variations

Related names:
*Amalia
*Amália - Portuguese for "Amalia"
*Amaliana
*Amalianne
*Amee
*Ameliana
*Amelianne
*Amélia - Portuguese for "Amelia"
*Amelie
*Amelka - Polish for Amelia
*Amylia
*Emelia
*Emeliana
*Emelianne
*Emilia - Italian, Portuguese and Spanish for "Emily"
*Emiliana
*Emilianne
*Lia
*Mia
*Melia
*Meliana
*Melianne
*Melie
*Mil
*Milene - Portuguse for "Millianna"
*Miliana
*Milianne
*Milly
*Millie
*Milliana
*Millianne

Famous people

* Saint Amelia, early medieval saint
* Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), American aviator and feminist
* Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894), American feminist, started the newspaper "The Lily", popularized bloomers
* Amelia Warner (born 1982), Irish actress
* Amelia Vega (born 1984), Former Miss Universe (2003) from the Dominican Republic

Fictional characters

* Amelia Sedley, character in Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
* Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun, character from anime "Slayers"
* Amelia Bedelia, title character in books by Peggy Parish
* Title character in "Amelia's notebooks," a series of books by Marissa Moss
* Naughty Amelia Jane, doll antiheroine of a children's book series by Enid Blyton
*Amelia Peabody, the main character in a series of mystery novels by Elizabeth Peters
* Amelia Voght, character in X-Men
* Amelia the Recruit, character in the game
* Amelia Bones, character from the "Harry Potter" series
*Amelia (Underworld) The only Female Vampire Elder in the "Underworld" (film series)
*Amelia, a staffer of the Bass Company that Chuck seduced in the television series "Gossip Girl".

ee also

* Amalia
* Amélie (disambiguation)


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