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Amonte vs Amoura

American parents have registered 3,226 Amouras since 1880, against 730 Amontes. Amoura is still ahead, with 570 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amonte against Amoura, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amonte Amoura

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 36 years in which either name was published, Amonte for 23 years and Amoura for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Amonte Amoura
Total US births 7303,226
Most in one year 40570
Babies in 2025 13570
Estimated living today 7203,200
Median age today 183
Peak year 20072025
Best rank 2,920th boys527th girls
Rank in 2025 6,446th527th
First recorded 19902007
Girls / boys 0 / 7303,226 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Amontes alive today are over 18; half the Amouras are over 3. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amonte and Amoura.