girl's name
Amora
uh-MOR-uh
- Origin Latin
- Gender Girl
- Letters 5
- Popularity Top 1000 (US)
- Births on record 9,954
the United States
#247
2025 births
Amora is a girl's name built from the Latin amor, love. It is a modern elaboration rather than an inherited name: amor is the Latin and Spanish word, and Amora is an English-language extension of it that appears in the birth records only from the 1980s.
- Amora is a name of Latin origin.
- Peaked in 2025, when 1,259 babies were given the name.
- It has been rising over the past decade.
- Today about 1 in 2,633 babies in the United States is given this name.
- First appears in US birth records in 1984.
Amora over time
Births per decade in the United States, 1980s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 |
| 1990s | 31 |
| 2000s | 476 |
| 2010s | 3,204 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 5,700 |
What Amora means
Amora is understood as love, through the Latin amor and its Spanish and Portuguese descendants. The final A is a modern addition that makes the word read as a feminine given name, and it is that shaping rather than the root that is new.
Where Amora comes from
Amora rests on the Latin amor, love, from the verb amare, which gives amour in French, amore in Italian and amor in Spanish and Portuguese. Amora itself is not a traditional name in any of those languages — in Portuguese the word means a blackberry — so pages describing it as a Spanish name are describing the root rather than the name. It belongs instead to the English-language habit of extending a familiar word with an A to make a girl's name, alongside Aria, Nova and Luna, and it first appears in our records in 1984.
Amora in use
Amora first appears in our records in 1984 and reached its highest recorded use in 2025, the most recent year we hold.
How popular is Amora?
In 2025, Amora was given to 1,259 babies in the United States, ranking #247 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Where Amora is used
US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Amora
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Amora also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Amora over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
2 nicknames for Amora
Each one is a name in its own right — the figure underneath is how it is doing today, so you can see which short forms are rising and which have faded.
Amora in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
Sibling names for Amora
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Amora — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Amora
What does the name Amora mean?
Love, from the Latin amor. The name itself is a modern English elaboration rather than an inherited Latin or Spanish name.
Is Amora a Spanish name?
Its root is. Amor is Spanish for love, but Amora is not a traditional Spanish given name — in Portuguese the word means blackberry.
How do you pronounce Amora?
uh-MOR-uh, with the stress on the second syllable.
How popular is the name Amora?
In 2025, Amora was given to 1,259 babies in the United States, ranking #247 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Is Amora a girl's or a boy's name?
Amora is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.
When was Amora most popular?
Amora peaked in 2025, when 1,259 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.
What are the nicknames for Amora?
Amora is usually shortened to Mora and Ami.
Is Amora a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Amora currently ranks #247 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.