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Amogh vs Amora

American parents have registered 9,416 Amoras since 1880, against 722 Amoghs. Amora is still ahead, with 1,259 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amogh against Amora, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amogh Amora

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 33 years in which either name was published, Amora for 26 years and Amogh for 7 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Amogh Amora
Total US births 7229,416
Most in one year 561,259
Babies in 2025 221,259
Estimated living today 7109,400
Median age today 164
Peak year 20082025
Best rank 2,327th boys247th girls
Rank in 2025 4,539th247th
First recorded 19961984
Girls / boys 0 / 7229,416 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Amoghs alive today are over 16; half the Amoras are over 4. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amogh Amora
England and Wales 37339

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amogh and Amora.