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Amour

#2,780 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Form of Amor

Amour has been given to 1,084 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #2,780 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 88 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% girls, 20% boys all-time.

Babies named Amour, 2025

1 in 54,300

Amour over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Amour over time

In 2025, Amour went to 73% girls and 27% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Amour: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Amor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amour means

Amour is a form of Amor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Amour → Amor. The family’s meaning is “love”, recorded in the naming reference for Amor.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amor.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 866 girls were recorded with the name Amour between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 88 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,158 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,685 in 2020 to #2,780 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,996 in 2015 to #2,780 in 2025.

In the United States, 218 boys were recorded with the name Amour between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,230 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,238 in 2020 to #4,404 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,339 in 2015 to #4,404 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Amour?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,780
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amour sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amour. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amours were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amour was born before 2020 — so the typical Amour is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
866
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (442).

Is Amour rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−366
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−95
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,216
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.65×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.3%
Peak was 2022 (88)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,158
2022

Spellings of Amour

Amour is not the most common spelling — Amber is, with 93.3% against Amour's 0.22%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Amour is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Amour was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 32,217 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 9,091
  2. 2Michigan1 in 14,286
  3. 3Florida1 in 20,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 20,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Amour is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Amour was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,210,576 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Amour has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amour around the world

Where Amour ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • France
    1908–2025
    #4,597
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Amour by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,780
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 95
Best rank ever
#2,158
2022
Peak year
2022
88 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
866
Count in 2025
61

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,404
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 834
Best rank ever
#3,230
2023
Peak year
2023
37 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
218
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Amour

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AmoriAmoryAmoreAmoniAmorahAmorieAmorAmouraAmoyaAmoriaAmoreeAmoraAmoretteFavourAmouriAmonieHonourNourAmorraAmohaAmoriahAmoniiAmourahAmoi

Sibling names for Amour

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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