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Amora vs Amore

American parents have registered 9,416 Amoras since 1880, against 1,509 Amores. Amora is still ahead, with 1,259 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amora against Amore, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amora Amore

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 35 years in which either name was published, Amora for 25 years and Amore for 10 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Amora Amore
Total US births 9,4161,509
Most in one year 1,259107
Babies in 2025 1,25970
Estimated living today 9,4001,500
Median age today 410
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 247th girls2,269th girls
Rank in 2025 247th2,895th
First recorded 19841990
Girls / boys 9,416 / 01,235 / 274

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 Amores alive today are over 10; half the Amoras are over 4. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amora Amore
England and Wales 33985

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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