Amor
Amor is given to both girls and boys: 124 girls and 45 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,668 among girls’ names and #2,798 among boys’, #2,472 among all names counting both); 2,958 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,920 Americans named Amor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amor?
#1,668 among girls’ names, 2025
Amor rose from #2,152 in 2015 to #1,668 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 49.3 to 77.1 per million.
228 babies in 2024, the peak
Amor peaked in 2024, when 228 babies were given it (154 girls, #1,437 among girls’ names). The 169 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124 | #1,668 | 45 | #2,798 |
| 2024 | 154 | #1,437 | 74 | #2,043 |
| 2023 | 153 | #1,455 | 67 | #2,147 |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,720 | 58 | #2,410 |
| 2021 | 138 | #1,525 | 53 | #2,500 |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,476 | 28 | #3,733 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,803 | 39 | #3,053 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,840 | 37 | #3,107 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,944 | 22 | #4,471 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,034 | 34 | #3,297 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #2,152 | 25 | #4,081 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,675 | 24 | #4,140 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,309 | 24 | #4,067 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,682 | 20 | #4,692 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,842 | 17 | #5,208 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,162 | 13 | #6,365 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,415 | 23 | #4,284 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,425 | 13 | #6,407 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,534 | 9 | #8,207 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,621 | 16 | #5,310 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,269 | 10 | #7,120 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,290 | 6 | #10,008 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,945 | 7 | #8,695 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,679 | 7 | #8,492 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,973 | 5 | #10,636 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,713 | 7 | #8,230 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,201 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,734 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,182 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,735 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,796 | 8 | #6,434 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,620 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,602 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,527 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,466 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,063 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,426 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,814 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,556 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,487 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,059 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,484 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,135 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,716 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,813 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,318 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,019 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,277 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,309 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,331 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,554 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Amor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,958 Americans recorded as Amor, 76% are girls and 24% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amor, and how old are they?
2,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,958 Americans ever recorded as Amor. The median Amor alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,333 people named Amor (1,761 women and girls, 572 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,816 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 44 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 102 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 707 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,070 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Amor born?
The states with the most babies named Amor are Texas, California and Illinois, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,226 | 0.8× |
| California | 16 | #1,416 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 10 | #855 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 7 | #824 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,373 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,179 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,455 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,046 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amor with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,374 babies since 1880, Amor is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 169 of their 267 babies (63%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amor
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Amor and names like it
- Compare Amor and AmourBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmor peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amor since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Amor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.