Amour
Amour is given to both girls and boys: 61 girls and 23 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,780 among girls’ names and #4,404 among boys’, #3,973 among all names counting both); 1,084 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Amour and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amour by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amour?
#2,780 among girls’ names, 2025
Amour rose from #3,996 in 2015 to #2,780 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 38.0 per million.
115 babies in 2023, the peak
Amour peaked in 2023, when 115 babies were given it (78 girls, #2,337 among girls’ names). The 84 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 73% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,780 | 23 | #4,404 |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,414 | 21 | #4,710 |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,337 | 37 | #3,230 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,158 | 26 | #4,094 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,328 | 16 | #5,571 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,685 | 17 | #5,238 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,510 | 11 | #7,199 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,247 | 17 | #5,326 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,635 | 8 | #8,889 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,432 | 6 | #10,825 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,996 | 13 | #6,339 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,108 | 8 | #8,826 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,024 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,569 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,817 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,269 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,025 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,694 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,944 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,919 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,938 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,549 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,182 | 5 | #10,751 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,163 | under 5 |
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 Amour a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,084 Americans recorded as Amour, 80% are girls and 20% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amour: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amour, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,084 Americans ever recorded as Amour. The median Amour alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 512 people named Amour (391 women and girls, 121 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 135 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 942 |
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,042 babies since 1880, Amour is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 253 babies (33%), again the second 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 Amour
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 Amour and names like it
- Compare Amour and AmorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmour peaked in 2023.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amour since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Amour.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amour alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.