Entry № 538 · French origin

Amélie Amélie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-meh-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Industrious (Amélie 2001 film, Audrey Tautou)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (French)

A name that means "industrious (amélie 2001 film, audrey tautou)".

Amélie is the French diminutive of Amalia — from the Old Germanic amal ("industrious, vigorous"). A top-500 US baby name since 2004. 1. Amélie Pichard — French shoe designer.

Industrious (Amélie 2001 film, Audrey Tautou) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Amélie
Transliteration
Amélie
Pronunciation
/ ˈæm.ə.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amélie stands.

Amélie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Amélies before her.

Real people
Audrey Tautou
French actress (Amélie).
born 1976
Amélie Mauresmo
French tennis World No. 1.
born 1979
Amélie Nothomb
Belgian novelist.
born 1966
In fiction
Amélie Poulain
Jeunet's Amélie.
2001

Names connected to Amélie.

The number behind Amélie.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amélie reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.