Amoura
Feminine · Latin roots · “Formed from the French word amour”
Amoura is built from one of the most traveled words in Europe: Latin *amor* became French *amour*, which English borrowed whole in the Middle Ages and never quite gave back. Added to that word, the final -a places it beside Amara, Amira and Aurora — three soft syllables that open in the middle. It is a young name in American records, and its bearers are almost all still young children.
How old is the name Amoura?
Amoura first appears in US birth records in 2007 — 18 years ago. The typical Amoura is a kid of about 3 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,200 people named Amoura are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amoura most popular?
Amoura peaked in 2025, reaching #527 nationally. Today it ranks #527, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amor (Latin) to Amoura
The story of Amoura
The word underneath it is very old: Latin *amor* passed into Old French as *amour*, the central word of the troubadour love poetry of the twelfth century, and English took it as a loanword still printed in dictionaries today. The name Amoura, though, is recent and American — it appears in the national birth records only in this century, part of a broad move toward names ending in an open -a. Its use has been strongest in the Southeast and in Texas. It belongs to the same moment as Amora, Amari and Amira, names that share its rhythm without sharing its root.
Meaningscholars disagree
Formed from the French word amour, 'love'
The transparent reading is French *amour* (from Latin *amor*, 'love') with a feminine -a added — a modern American formation rather than an inherited name. A second road runs through the existing names Amora and Amara, and some families arrive at this spelling from that side instead. No reference work has settled which line came first, because the name is too new to have one.
How the name formed
- amorLatin
- amourOld French
- Amora
- Amoura
Related forms: Amora · Amorah · Amour · Amore · Amor
Pronouncing Amoura
uh-MOOR-uh
The middle syllable follows the English pronunciation of amour, rhyming with 'poor'. Some families say uh-MOR-uh, closer to Amora; both are in real use, so it is worth deciding early which one you will correct people to.
Nicknames for Amoura
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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
- 2007
- Most girls named
- 2025570 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #527reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +3.1%570 in 2025, from 553
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.
Amoura in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amora in English — spelling variant
- Amorah in English — spelling variant
- Amour in French — related form
- Amore in Italian — related form
- Amor in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Florida, Texas.
Amouras among us
people named Amoura are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,820 born in 2025 was named Amoura
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 Halie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amoura's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Halie climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Halie's path sketches the road Amoura is walking now.
Amoura 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 Amoura is headed
Amoura looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 52% 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.
Amoura beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amoura in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The word amour is already in English dictionaries, so most people read the spelling correctly on the first try without needing it spelled out.
- Its root — Latin amor, French amour — is documented for two thousand years, even though the name itself is new.
- Sits in a large, familiar sound family with Amara, Amira and Aurora, so it is recognizable without being repeated in a classroom.
- Offers several natural short forms — Mo, Mora, Ami — none of which needs explaining.
- Amora, Amorah and Amoura all circulate at once. She will likely spend her life spelling it, and the shorter Amora is the version strangers guess first.
- In English, 'an amour' means a love affair, a slightly old-fashioned and slightly scandalous usage. Most people will simply hear 'love'; a few adults will hear the other thing.
- The name is climbing quickly. A child born now may find it much more common by middle school than it is today — worth knowing if rarity is part of the appeal.
- Because the wave is so recent, nearly everyone carrying it is a small child. There are no grown Amouras to point to yet, which some parents like and others find unmoored.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amouras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Amoura are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Amoura in 2025?
- Amoura ranks #527 among US girl names in 2025, with 570 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amoura?
- About 1 in every 2,820 US girls born in 2025 was named Amoura — 570 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amoura with classmates?
- Amoura will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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