- 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
footnotes =Amelia is a female
given name . It is derived from the Germanic word "amal" meaning "work", and means "industrious" and "fertile". The diminutive is usuallyAmy ,Lia , orMia . Millie is sometimes used as the diminutive form in theUnited Kingdom .Etymologists believe that the name Amelia is unrelated to the
Latin "gens" name Aemilia, which was translated into English asEmily . Equivalents of Aemilia/Emily inromance 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
*MillianneFamous 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), FormerMiss Universe (2003) from the Dominican RepublicFictional characters
* Amelia Sedley, character in
Vanity Fair byWilliam 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 byEnid Blyton
*Amelia Peabody , the main character in a series of mystery novels by Elizabeth Peters
* Amelia Voght, character inX-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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