Amor

#1,666 for girls in 2025, 124 births · #2,798 for boys in 2025, 45 births
Given to girls 76.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
2024 · 154 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,257
since 1972

Amor over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202012girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,666124#2,79845
2024#1,436154#2,04274
2023#1,455153#2,14767
2022#1,720121#2,40858
2021#1,524138#2,49953
2020#1,474145#3,73428
2019#1,802113#3,05239
2018#1,840110#3,10637
2017#1,943103#4,46622
2016#2,03397#3,29334
2015#2,15288#4,08025
2014#1,674126#4,13824
2013#2,30580#4,06424
2012#2,67966#4,68620
2011#2,83861#5,20017
2010#3,15952#6,35913
2009#3,40948#4,27823
2008#3,42048#6,39313
2007#3,53146#8,1739
2006#3,61743#5,30316
2005#4,26732#7,09610
2004#4,28732#9,9486
2003#3,94634#8,6437
2002#5,67320#8,4567
2001#6,95615#10,5565
2000#5,70519#8,2097
1999#6,19116
1998#6,71914
1997#6,16315
1996#6,72313
1995#8,7669#6,4078
1994#9,5868
1993#9,5598
1992#9,4918
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1990#11,4096
1989#8,0379
1988#10,3866
1987#8,7787
1986#8,5237
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1984#10,4225
1983#9,0156
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1981#10,4115
1980#9,0956
1979#6,6969
1978#9,7505
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1975#7,9846
1974#6,2588
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First appearance
1972

The first year at least five girls were named Amor! It came in at #7,292, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Amor
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 230 spots since 2024 (#1,436#1,666)
  • 192 spots since 2020 (#1,474#1,666)
  • 486 spots since 2015 (#2,152#1,666)
Rise & fade · girls
52 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1972
  • Peaked 2024 at #1,436 (154 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,487
  • Highest: 1 in 10,487 girls born in 2023 were named Amor (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 12,962 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,436 in 2024, was only 1 in 10,521 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 39.7% of all girls named Amor (896) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1972
  • Mostly boys until 1971, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s41#6,258 (1974)#7,546
1980s51#8,037 (1989)#9,333
1990s97#6,163 (1997)#8,290
2000s337#3,409 (2009)#4,481
2010s896#1,674 (2014)#2,243
2020s835#1,436 (2024)#1,546

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Amor in 2012

girls
#2,679
66 births · 1 in 26,683 girls
boys
#4,686
20 births · 1 in 94,847 boys

Top girls' names in 2012

  1. #1Sophia22,336
  2. #2Emma20,976
  3. #3Isabella19,138
  4. #4Olivia17,333
  5. #5Ava15,549
  6. #6Emily13,666
  7. #7Abigail12,730
  8. #8Mia12,039
  9. #9Madison11,417
  10. #10Elizabeth9,730
  11. #2,679Amor66

Top boys' names in 2012

  1. #1Jacob19,110
  2. #2Mason18,994
  3. #3Ethan17,697
  4. #4Noah17,385
  5. #5William16,917
  6. #6Liam16,824
  7. #7Michael16,211
  8. #8Jayden16,152
  9. #9Alexander15,259
  10. #10Aiden14,924
  11. #4,686Amor20
More about 2012

girls

1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 26,683 of them was named Amor, which outranked 86.3% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amor
  1. #2,654Romy67
  2. #2,654Yulianna67
  3. #2,654Zyla67
  4. #2,679Amor66
  5. #2,679Adrina66
  6. #2,679Aliannah66
  7. #2,679Aly66
  8. #2,708Aeryn65
  9. #2,708Ayda65
  10. #2,708Breonna65

Tied with 28 names at #2,679; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2011
Risers
  1. 4,327Cataleya#4,807#480
  2. 1,931Adley#2,664#733
  3. 917Litzy#1,515#598
  4. 784Kenia#1,427#643
  5. 580Monroe#1,531#951
Fallers
  1. 429Jaden#979#1,408
  2. 365Payten#994#1,359
  3. 326Yamilet#925#1,251
  4. 316Shaniya#915#1,231
  5. 264Shania#898#1,162

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 94,847 of them was named Amor, which outranked 67.1% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amor
  1. #4,533Zedekiah21
  2. #4,533Zeeshan21
  3. #4,533Zhane21
  4. #4,686Amor20
  5. #4,686Abdimalik20
  6. #4,686Abir20
  7. #4,686Adham20
  8. #4,862Aadil19
  9. #4,862Abdulmalik19
  10. #4,862Abdurahman19

Tied with 175 names at #4,686; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2011
Risers
  1. 1,237Jionni#2,105#868
  2. 551Foster#1,544#993
  3. 504Major#990#486
  4. 433Kase#1,395#962
  5. 428Jael#1,411#983
Fallers
  1. 241Jerimiah#889#1,130
  2. 235Lathan#932#1,167
  3. 229Jorden#676#905
  4. 209Kyron#886#1,095
  5. 207Jakobe#928#1,135

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2012