Amor
Masculine · “love”
Amor is given to both — 701 boys and 2,257 girls since 1880. See Amor as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Amor is the Latin word for love and also the name of the god — the Romans called him Amor as often as Cupido, and Amor is the older and plainer of the two. Spanish and Portuguese kept the word and the name together.
How old is the name Amor?
Amor first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Amor is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Amor are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amor most popular?
Amor peaked in 2024, reaching #2042 nationally. Today it ranks #2798, 756 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amare to Amor
The story of Amor
Amor as a god is a Roman literary figure more than a cult one: he appears throughout Latin poetry, and the story of Cupid and Psyche is told at length in a second-century Latin novel. As a given name Amor belongs mostly to Spanish and Portuguese use, where words of this kind — Amor, Consuelo, Dolores, Esperanza — have long been given as names, usually to daughters and sometimes through Marian titles. Its appearance for boys in American records is recent, and it belongs alongside the small group of borrowed love-words being used as names now.
Meaning
love
Latin amor, from amare, 'to love'. The same word gives Spanish and Portuguese amor, Italian amore and French amour, and through French it gave English amorous and paramour. Amor was also a name of the Roman god of love, whose Greek counterpart is Eros. The reading is exact and undisputed.
How the name formed
- amare
- amor
- Amor
Related forms: Amor · Amour · Amore · Amor
Pronouncing Amor
ah-MOR
Two syllables with the stress on the second in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin. American English often says AY-mor, giving the first vowel an English long a, which is not the saying in any of the source languages.
Nicknames for Amor
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most boys named
- 202474 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2042reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −39.2%45 in 2025, from 74
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Amor in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amor in Spanish — same name
- Amour in French — related form
- Amore in Italian — related form
- Amor in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Amors among us
people named Amor are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 37,957 born in 2025 was named Amor
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Renny test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amor's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Renny climbed just as high around 1942, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Renny's path sketches the road Amor is walking now.
Amor sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Amor is headed
Amor looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 38% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Amor beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amor in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning needs no explaining in any European language.
- Four letters, no silent ones, and readable at sight in English and Spanish alike.
- A documented Latin word and a documented Roman figure rather than a modern coinage.
- It is the word for love applied to a person, which is a large thing to say on their behalf.
- In Spanish-speaking countries it has usually gone to daughters, so a boy may need to explain it.
- English speakers reach for AY-mor on first sight until corrected.
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Masculine · #2798 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Amors are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Amor are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Amor in 2025?
- Amor ranks #2798 among US boy names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amor?
- About 1 in every 37,957 US boys born in 2025 was named Amor — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amor with classmates?
- Amor will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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