Amory
Masculine · “Germanic "power of the Amali”
Amory is given to both — 679 boys and 630 girls since 1880. See Amory as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Amory looks like Latin love and is not. It comes from the Germanic Amalric — amal, the name of the Ostrogothic royal house, plus ric, power — so the first syllable names a dynasty rather than an emotion. Fitzgerald gave it to the hero of This Side of Paradise in 1920.
How old is the name Amory?
Amory first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Amory alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 600 people named Amory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amory most popular?
Amory peaked in 2020, reaching #3025 nationally. Today it ranks #7194, 4,169 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Amalric to Amory
The story of Amory
The Amali were the royal clan of the Ostrogoths, and Theodoric the Great belonged to them; their name became a productive element in Germanic personal names long after the dynasty ended. Amalric was carried by Visigothic and later Crusader kings — two kings of Jerusalem bore it in the twelfth century — and the Normans brought Aimery and Emery to England. It became an English surname, and then, in the American pattern, a given name again. Its literary life is what keeps it visible: Amory Blaine is the protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel in 1920. The American figures for the name peak recently, in 2020, in the current revival of soft-sounding surname names.
Meaning
Germanic "power of the Amali"
From Amalric or Amalaric, combining amal — the dynastic name of the Amali, the ruling family of the Ostrogoths, of debated further meaning, possibly work or vigor — with ric, ruler or power. It gave French Amaury and Aimery, English Amory and Emery, and the surname Emery. The resemblance to Latin amor, love, and French amour is a coincidence of sound; no etymology connects them, and readings of Amory as loving are folk etymology.
How the name formed
- Amalric
- Amaury
- Emery
- Amory
Related forms: Amaury · Emery · Emmerich · Américo
Pronouncing Amory
AY-muh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first. It is not ah-MOR-ee; the stress stays at the front, as in Emery, which is the same name.
Nicknames for Amory
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
- 1915
- Most boys named
- 201939 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3025reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −52.2%11 in 2025, from 23
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.
Amory in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amaury in French — same name
- Emery in English — same name
- Emmerich in German — same name
- Américo in Spanish — related form
Amorys among us
people named Amory are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 155,280 born in 2025 was named Amory
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amory
- #7194
- Amory on the 2025 chart
- #904
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amory went to 11 boys in 2025, but Amori is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 24, which makes it the 904th most-given boys’ name of the year — 6,290 places above the chart.
- Amori13
- Amory11
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 155,280 for Amory 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 Conroy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amory's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Conroy climbed just as high around 1957, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Conroy's path sketches the road Amory is walking now.
Amory 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
Amory beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amory in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a documented Germanic etymology tied to a named royal house.
- It is soft and current-sounding while being genuinely old.
- Rory works as a short form and stands alone.
- Almost everyone will assume it means love, and it does not.
- It is easily confused with Emory, Emery and Avery in speech and writing.
- It reads as unisex in current American usage.
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Masculine · #7194 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Amorys 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 Amory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amory?
- Amory is one of 2 recorded spellings. Amori is the more common one — 13 births in 2025 against 11 for Amory.
- How popular is the name Amory in 2025?
- Amory ranks #7194 among US boy names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amory?
- About 1 in every 155,280 US boys born in 2025 was named Amory — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amory with classmates?
- Amory will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Amory
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