Amory
Amory is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,996 among girls’ names and #7,218 among boys’, #10,652 among all names counting both); 1,309 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Amory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amory mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amory is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, today often transferred back from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “vigor, bravery” (*amalą) and “ruler” (*rīks).
Medieval personal name from Proto-Germanic *amalą (“vigor, bravery”) + *rīks (“ruler”). For the first element, compare *ammōną (“to bother, irritate”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amory?
#7,218 among boys’ names, 2025
Amory fell from #4,299 in 2015 to #7,218 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.0 to 6.4 per million.
71 babies in 2020, the peak
Amory peaked in 2020, when 71 babies were given it (38 boys, #3,024 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,996 | 11 | #7,218 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,995 | 23 | #4,440 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,688 | 24 | #4,345 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,384 | 33 | #3,467 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,249 | 31 | #3,583 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,176 | 38 | #3,024 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,718 | 39 | #3,054 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,816 | 18 | #5,112 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,359 | 21 | #4,599 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,140 | 24 | #4,204 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,477 | 23 | #4,299 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,034 | 17 | #5,258 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,651 | 22 | #4,323 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,407 | 18 | #5,037 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,657 | 13 | #6,266 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,292 | 7 | #9,732 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,359 | 6 | #11,065 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,436 | 9 | #8,350 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,759 | 8 | #8,957 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,170 | 13 | #6,106 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,271 | 8 | #8,331 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,296 | 7 | #8,966 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,907 | 17 | #4,615 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,718 | 9 | #7,066 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 15 | #4,893 | |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,885 | 7 | #8,232 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,250 | 11 | #5,665 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,180 | 10 | #5,854 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,852 | 5 | #9,318 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,521 | 8 | #6,435 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,621 | 9 | #5,880 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,516 | 9 | #5,778 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,530 | 8 | #6,146 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #6,536 | |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,248 | 5 | #8,154 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,451 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,871 | 7 | #5,770 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,805 | 7 | #5,470 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,775 | 8 | #4,861 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,317 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #4,937 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,565 | 7 | #5,032 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,427 | 6 | #5,502 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,136 | 9 | #4,150 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,339 | 8 | #4,424 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,972 | 6 | #5,087 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,903 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,333 | 5 | #5,619 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,125 | 6 | #4,818 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,278 | 6 | #4,654 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,324 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #3,975 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,433 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,060 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 7 | #3,361 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 6 | #3,562 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #3,957 | |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,203 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 6 | #3,604 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 7 | #3,363 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,212 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,254 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,408 |
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 Amory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,309 Americans recorded as Amory, 48% are girls and 52% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amory, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,309 Americans ever recorded as Amory. The median Amory alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,020 people named Amory (529 women and girls, 491 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 980 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 101 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 597 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 70,749 babies since 1880, Amory is the fifth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 3,773 babies (<1%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Amory
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 Amory and names like it
- Compare Amory and AmariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmory peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amory since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Amory: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Amory.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amory alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.