Amori
Feminine
Amori is given to both — 631 girls and 374 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Amori is a very recent American name sitting one letter from the Latin for love. Whether that is where it came from is not documented, and the -ori and -ari endings were doing a great deal of work in the years it appeared.
How old is the name Amori?
Amori first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Amori is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Amori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amori most popular?
Amori peaked in 2021, reaching #3037 nationally. Today it ranks #5554, 2,517 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Amori
Amari is the parent here and it has an interesting history of its own: it appears in American records in the 1990s, rises for both sexes, and enters the top two hundred without any documented source. Once it was established the vowel started moving, which is the ordinary next step — Amora, Amori, Amoree, Amaree. What is worth noticing about Amori specifically is how close it lands to a Latin word that everyone half-recognizes. That resemblance will do work whether or not it was intended: people will hear love in it, name books will assert it, and within a generation the assertion will look like a fact. Watching that happen is one of the more instructive things the recent records offer, and its 2021 peak means the process is still in progress.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source establishes an etymology. Latin amor, love, is the obvious resemblance and is undocumented as the source; amori is its dative and locative form, which would be a strange thing to choose deliberately. The name appears in American records alongside Amari, Amara, Imari and Amora, and is more plausibly a member of that group. Nothing connects it to an older word.
Pronouncing Amori
uh-MOR-ee
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Latin amori would be ah-MO-ree with a fuller opening vowel, and no American bearer uses it.
Nicknames for Amori
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
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 202154 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3037reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −53.2%22 in 2025, from 47
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.
Amori in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Missouri, Georgia.
Amoris among us
people named Amori are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 73,058 born in 2025 was named Amori
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amori
- #5554
- Amori on the 2025 chart
- #930
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amori went to 22 girls in 2025, but Amory is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 30, which makes it the 930th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,624 places above the chart.
- Amori22
- Amory8
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 73,058 for Amori 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 Estephany test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amori's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Estephany climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Estephany's path sketches the road Amori is walking now.
Amori 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
Amori beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amori in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The vowels are open and there is no difficult consonant.
- Ami and Mori both work as short forms.
- It reads immediately as a name.
- The resemblance to the Latin for love is not a documented source.
- Amari, Amori, Amara and Amora are close enough to be confused.
- It is among the newest names in the American record.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amoris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Amori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amori?
- Amori is the most-used spelling in US records — 22 of the 30 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Amory.
- How popular is the name Amori in 2025?
- Amori ranks #5554 among US girl names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amori?
- About 1 in every 73,058 US girls born in 2025 was named Amori — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amori with classmates?
- Amori will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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