Amorah
Feminine · “love”
Amorah is built on the Latin amor — love — and the same root gives amateur, someone who does a thing for love.
How old is the name Amorah?
Amorah first appears in US birth records in 2005 — 20 years ago. The typical Amorah is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Amorah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amorah most popular?
Amorah peaked in 2020, reaching #1893 nationally. Today it ranks #2276, 383 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amor to Amorah
Our story of Amorah
Our story of Amorah is a story of the plainest word in Latin given a modern ending. Amor is love, and the root runs through English in amateur — someone who does a thing for love rather than money — and in amorous and enamoured. American families built Amorah in the 2010s, alongside Amara, Aurora and Amora. The Latin is two and a half thousand years old; the name is about ten, and both facts are worth having.
Meaningscholars disagree
love
Generally read from the Latin amor, 'love', with a modern -ah ending. The root gives amateur, amorous and enamoured. Whether Amorah descends from the Latin or is a coinage on the sound of Amara and Aurora is not documented. The Latin word is settled; the name is modern.
How the name formed
- amor
- Amorah
Related forms: Amora · Amor
Pronouncing Amorah
uh-MOR-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Amorah and Amora are said identically.
Nicknames for Amorah
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
- 2005
- Most girls named
- 2020101 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1893reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −9.1%80 in 2025, from 88
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.
Amorah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amora in English — spelling variant
- Amor in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, California.
Amorahs among us
people named Amorah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 20,091 born in 2025 was named Amorah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amorah
- #2276
- Amorah on the 2025 chart
- #246
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amorah went to 80 girls in 2025, but Amora and Amoraa are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 1,355, which makes it the 246th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,030 places above the chart.
- Amora1,259
- Amorah80
- Amoraa11
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 1,186 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 20,091 for Amorah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Mykenzie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amorah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mykenzie climbed just as high around 1999, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mykenzie's path sketches the road Amorah is walking now.
Amorah 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 Amorah is headed
Amorah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Amorah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amorah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That an amateur is one who acts for love is a first-rate etymology.
- Amy is available as a related short form with a large record.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- The descent from Latin is not documented for this spelling.
- Amora and Amara are both close in sound.
- It will need spelling out every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amorahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Amorah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amorah?
- Amorah is one of 3 recorded spellings. Amora is the more common one — 1,259 births in 2025 against 80 for Amorah.
- How popular is the name Amorah in 2025?
- Amorah ranks #2276 among US girl names in 2025, with 80 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amorah?
- About 1 in every 20,091 US girls born in 2025 was named Amorah — 80 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amorah with classmates?
- Amorah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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