Amora
Feminine · Latin roots · “From Latin/Spanish amor”
Amora sits on one of the most recognizable word-roots in Europe: Latin amor, love, which passed unchanged into Spanish and Portuguese. As a given name it is a recent arrival in American records, and it is climbing — still rare enough in any one classroom, but no longer unfamiliar. Three syllables, open vowels, and a stress that lands cleanly in the middle: uh-MOR-uh.
How old is the name Amora?
Amora first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Amora is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 9,400 people named Amora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amora most popular?
Amora peaked in 2025, reaching #247 nationally. Today it ranks #247, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amor (Latin) to Amora
The story of Amora
The root is beyond dispute: Latin amor traveled into Spanish, Portuguese and Italian largely intact, and gave European naming a long line of love-words used as names. Amora itself, as a girl's name in the United States, has no deep paper trail — it appears in the records only in recent decades, with no single coiner or bearer to point to. Its strength in Texas, California and Florida places its growth squarely alongside American Spanish-speaking communities, where amor needs no translation. It also arrived at a moment when Aurora, Amara and Amelia were all rising, and it fits that sound-family so neatly that most people hear it as already known.
Meaningscholars disagree
From Latin/Spanish amor, "love" — though the identical Portuguese word amora means "blackberry, mulberry"
Two honest readings sit behind the same spelling. Read as a feminine formation on amor, it means love, and that is how it is most often understood in the US. But amora is also a plain noun in Portuguese and Spanish for the blackberry or mulberry, so a Portuguese speaker may hear the fruit before the feeling. Neither reading cancels the other.
How the name formed
- amorLatin
- amor / amoraSpanish and Portuguese
- Amora
Related forms: Amora · Amora · Amor · Amore
Pronouncing Amora
uh-MOR-uh
Spanish and Portuguese speakers say ah-MOR-ah, with a fuller first vowel. Both versions are heard in the US and neither needs correcting.
Nicknames for Amora
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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
- 1984
- Most girls named
- 20251,259 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #247reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +13.6%1,259 in 2025, from 1,108
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.
Amora in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amora in Spanish — same name
- Amora in Portuguese — same name
- Amor in Spanish — related form
- Amore in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Amoras among us
people named Amora are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 1,277 born in 2025 was named Amora
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 Audra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amora's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Audra climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Audra's path sketches the road Amora is walking now.
Amora 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.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Amora is headed
Amora looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium 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.
Amora beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amora in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spells itself: a listener who hears it once can usually write it, in English or Spanish, without asking.
- Built on amor, a word recognized across Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin — the root carries wherever the family travels.
- Sits inside a familiar sound-family with Aurora, Amara and Amelia, so it registers as a known name rather than an unplaceable one.
- Has workable short forms already in use — Mora, Ama, Ria — without requiring any.
- It is rising quickly. A child named Amora now may well share the name with a classmate or two by high school, even though that is unlikely in her first years of school.
- Aurora, Amara and Amaya crowd the same space in the ear. Expect a fair number of gentle corrections over a lifetime.
- A name that plainly says "love" invites comment — sweet remarks from strangers, and occasionally teasing from other children. Some families like that openness; others find it a lot to carry on a form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amoras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,400 people named Amora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Amora in 2025?
- Amora ranks #247 among US girl names in 2025, with 1,259 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amora?
- About 1 in every 1,277 US girls born in 2025 was named Amora — 1,259 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amora with classmates?
- Amora will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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