Head to head · Girls' names
Amoura vs Lottie
#527 vs #527 in 2025
Amoura and Lottie share the same spot on the 2025 charts (#527). The records cannot split them; sound and story will.
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The tale of the tape
On the charts, Lottie leads 4 measures of 6; Amoura leads 0.
Ranks, counts and years are measured in the official US birth record; the classroom and living figures are estimates computed from it. The dot marks the side each measure favours on the charts — more common, not better.
What the records say
146 years of US births, drawn on one scale
Two curves, one scale
Who owned which decade
- 1880s: Amoura —, Lottie #80 — Lottie higher
- 1890s: Amoura —, Lottie #93 — Lottie higher
- 1900s: Amoura —, Lottie #115 — Lottie higher
- 1910s: Amoura —, Lottie #146 — Lottie higher
- 1920s: Amoura —, Lottie #211 — Lottie higher
- 1930s: Amoura —, Lottie #307 — Lottie higher
- 1940s: Amoura —, Lottie #450 — Lottie higher
- 1950s: Amoura —, Lottie #740 — Lottie higher
- 1960s: Amoura —, Lottie #1209 — Lottie higher
- 1970s: Amoura —, Lottie #2201 — Lottie higher
- 1980s: Amoura —, Lottie #3138 — Lottie higher
- 1990s: Amoura —, Lottie #4729 — Lottie higher
- 2000s: Amoura #11196, Lottie #5705 — Lottie higher
- 2010s: Amoura #5293, Lottie #2722 — Lottie higher
- 2020s: Amoura #686, Lottie #929 — Amoura higher
Lottie stood higher in 14 of 15 decades; Amoura took the 2020s.
Rank by decade
| Decade | Amoura | Lottie |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | — | #80 |
| 1890s | — | #93 |
| 1900s | — | #115 |
| 1910s | — | #146 |
| 1920s | — | #211 |
| 1930s | — | #307 |
| 1940s | — | #450 |
| 1950s | — | #740 |
| 1960s | — | #1209 |
| 1970s | — | #2201 |
| 1980s | — | #3138 |
| 1990s | — | #4729 |
| 2000s | #11196 | #5705 |
| 2010s | #5293 | #2722 |
| 2020s | #686 | #929 |
Average national rank across each decade. A dash means the name sat outside the recorded top of that decade.
Around the world
Amoura
Not charting outside the US.
Lottie
- Scotland#29
- England & Wales#38
National statistics offices, latest published year.
The names themselves
Meaning, roots, sound and the people who carried each
Where each name comes from
Amoura
Formed from the French word amour, 'love'
The transparent reading is French *amour* (from Latin *amor*, 'love') with a feminine -a added — a modern American formation rather than an inherited name. A second road runs through the existing names Amora and Amara, and some families arrive at this spelling from that side instead. No reference work has settled which line came first, because the name is too new to have one.
amor (Latin) → amour (Old French) → Amora → Amoura
How it traveled
The word underneath it is very old: Latin *amor* passed into Old French as *amour*, the central word of the troubadour love poetry of the twelfth century, and English took it as a loanword still printed in dictionaries today. The name Amoura, though, is recent and American — it appears in the national birth records only in this century, part of a broad move toward names ending in an open -a.
Lottie
free (through Charlotte, from Germanic karl, 'free man')
Lottie carries no meaning of its own; it inherits Charlotte's, which traces back through French Charles to the Germanic element karl.
Karl → Charles → Charlotte → Lotte → Lottie
How it traveled
Charlotte arrived in English as the French feminine of Charles, and English speakers did to it what they do to every long name: they clipped it. German and Dutch speakers had already made Lotte from the same source — that is the Lotte of Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774 — and English added its own -ie.
Where a reading is contested the note says so — this page does not turn a guess into a fact. The chain is each name's recorded forms, oldest first; the story is its opening, told in full on the name's own page.
Out loud, and in short
Amoura
uh-MOOR-uh
The middle syllable follows the English pronunciation of amour, rhyming with 'poor'. Some families say uh-MOR-uh, closer to Amora; both are in real use, so it is worth deciding early which one you will correct people to.
- Mo — Cut from the stressed middle syllable; used informally and works for a child or an adult.
- Mora — Takes the last two syllables; informal, and a surname in its own right in Spanish.
- Ami — Informal, from the opening; also stands alone as a given name in several languages.
- Amou — A family-level shortening rather than an established form, mostly heard with small children.
Lottie
LOT-ee
Stress on the first syllable. In much of American English the t sounds closer to a d, giving LOD-ee; British speakers tend to keep the crisper t.
- Lottie — Already a short form of Charlotte, and used on its own as a full given name; both patterns are long established.
- Lot — Informal clipping used within families rather than on paper.
- Lo — Informal, single-syllable, most often heard among close friends.
Is it right for you
The differences that decide it, laid out by what you want
Choose by what you want
Choose Amoura if you want…
- a name with more sound in itAmoura runs 3 syllables, Lottie 2
- a newer arrivalAmoura entered the US charts in 2007
- a name that feels very nowAmoura is climbing the charts fast
Choose Lottie if you want…
- a name on the way upup 1,023 places on the charts in five years
- a name with fewer syllablesLottie is 2 syllables to Amoura's 3
- a name that charts abroad tooLottie is on the national lists of Scotland and England & Wales
- a long American recordLottie was already in use when US records began in 1880
Each line is a measured difference between the two names — a rank, a count, a recorded form — never a judgement of either. Save the one that answers your question; it lands on your shortlist.
The trade-offs, name by name
Amoura
Strengths
- The word amour is already in English dictionaries, so most people read the spelling correctly on the first try without needing it spelled out.
- Its root — Latin amor, French amour — is documented for two thousand years, even though the name itself is new.
- Sits in a large, familiar sound family with Amara, Amira and Aurora, so it is recognizable without being repeated in a classroom.
To consider
- Amora, Amorah and Amoura all circulate at once. She will likely spend her life spelling it, and the shorter Amora is the version strangers guess first.
- In English, 'an amour' means a love affair, a slightly old-fashioned and slightly scandalous usage. Most people will simply hear 'love'; a few adults will hear the other thing.
- The name is climbing quickly. A child born now may find it much more common by middle school than it is today — worth knowing if rarity is part of the appeal.
Lottie
Strengths
- Spelling is guessable from the sound, and the name is already familiar to anyone who knows Charlotte.
- Comes with a ready formal option: parents who want a longer legal name can register Charlotte and use Lottie daily.
- An unbroken record in American statistics stretching back to the first years such records were kept.
To consider
- It is a diminutive by origin, so it stays in a friendly register for life. Some parents like that; others prefer to have Charlotte on the birth certificate and keep Lottie for everyday.
- People who know it as Charlotte's nickname may assume it is short for something and ask for the 'real' name, or write Charlotte on forms without being asked.
- Lotti, Lotty and Lottie all exist, so expect the occasional correction — though the -ie ending is the common one in both Britain and America.
Documented properties of each name — how it spells, travels and shortens — not opinions about the child.
How each is likely to age
Amoura
54%chance Amoura feels dated by 2040
Amoura is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
Lottie
30%chance Lottie feels dated by 2040
Lottie is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A reading of where each name sits on the long naming cycle — computed, not measured, and explained on the data page.
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Amoura or Lottie — the short answers
- Which is more popular, Amoura or Lottie?
- They tie in 2025: Amoura ranked #527 with 570 babies; Lottie ranked #527 with 570 babies.
- Which name is rising faster, Amoura or Lottie?
- Lottie. Over the last five years Amoura moved up 298 places; Lottie moved up 1,023 places.
- Which is the older name, Amoura or Lottie?
- Amoura entered the US charts in 2007; Lottie was already in use when US records began in 1880. On the American record, Lottie is the older name.
- How many people are named Amoura and Lottie?
- About 3,200 people named Amoura are estimated to be alive in the US today. About 9,100 people named Lottie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- Will there be other Amouras or Lotties in the classroom?
- Amoura will almost certainly be the only one in school. Lottie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
US figures from the Social Security Administration, 1880–2025; international figures from national statistics agencies. Votes are battle voters on this site, not the birth record. Data & methodology
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