Amelia (name)
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| Pronunciation | A-meal-yuh, A-mil-e-a, A-meal-e-a |
| Gender | Female |
| Meaning | "work", "industrious," "fertile" |
| Related names | Emily |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Amelia |
For other uses, see Amelia.
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.
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[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] 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 Ciuman (born 1987)
[edit] 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 Fire Emblem: the Sacred Stones
- Amelia Bones, character from the Harry Potter series
- Amelia (Underworld) The only Female Vampire Elder in the Underworld (film series)
[edit] See also
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