Save Gender Feminine Usage Jèrriais, French (Archaic), Literature Meaning & History Jèrriais form of French Amélie as well as the local French vernacular form of Amélie found in the Poitou-Charentes region up until the 19th century. In the literary world, this name occurs in Les Histoires de Jhaquet Mâle (1931) by Eugène Rougier.