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Amoni vs Amor

American parents have registered 2,958 Amors since 1880, against 1,744 Amonis. Amor is still ahead, with 169 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amoni against Amor, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amoni Amor

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 52 years in which either name was published, Amor for 36 years and Amoni for 16 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Amoni Amor
Total US births 1,7442,958
Most in one year 77228
Babies in 2025 64169
Estimated living today 1,7002,900
Median age today 138
Peak year 20122024
Best rank 2,805th girls1,436th girls
Rank in 2025 3,517th1,666th
First recorded 19911912
Girls / boys 1,456 / 2882,257 / 701

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 Amonis alive today are over 13; half the Amors are over 8. That is 5 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.

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