Amelia
Aviator Amelia Earhart is a well-known modern Amelia.
Pronunciation	A-meal-yuh, A-mil-e-a, A-meal-e-a
Gender	Female
Meaning	"work", "industrious", "fertile"
Related names	Emily, Amy, Lia, Mia , Mel, Amelie
Popularity	Popular names page

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Amelia is a female given name. It is a variant of Amalia, derived from the Germanic word amal meaning "work", and means "industrious" and "fertile". The diminutive is usually Amy, Lia, or Mia, Mel.

Etymologists believe that the name Amelia/Amalia 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.

[edit] Famous people

• Saint Amelia, early medieval saint
• Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894), American feminist, started the newspaper The Lily, popularized bloomers
• Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), American aviator and feminist
• Amelia Okoli (born 1941), Nigerian high jumper
• Amelia Warner (born 1982), Irish actress
• Amelia Vega (born 1984), Miss Universe (2003) from the Dominican Republic
• Minnie Driver (born Amelia Fiona J. Driver, 1970), English actress
• Amelie Beese (1886-1925), German aviator
• Amelie Chabannes (born 1974), French artist
• Amelie Delagrange (1982-2004), French murder victim
• Amelie Kober (born 1987), German snowboarder
• Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
• Amélie Plume, Swiss writer
• Amélie Linz (1824-1904), German writer
• Amélie-les-crayons, French singer

[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 Bones, character from the Harry Potter series
• Amelia (Underworld), the only female Vampire Elder in the Underworld film series
• Amélie Poulain, protagonist of the film Amélie
• Amelia Louise McBride, main character in the graphic novel series, Amelia Rules!, by Jimmy Gownley

[edit] See also

• Amalia
• Amélie (disambiguation)

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