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Amonte vs Amor

American parents have registered 2,958 Amors since 1880, against 730 Amontes. Amor is still ahead, with 169 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amonte 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 40 years and Amonte for 12 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Amonte Amor
Total US births 7302,958
Most in one year 40228
Babies in 2025 13169
Estimated living today 7202,900
Median age today 188
Peak year 20072024
Best rank 2,920th boys1,436th girls
Rank in 2025 6,446th1,666th
First recorded 19901912
Girls / boys 0 / 7302,257 / 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 Amontes alive today are over 18; half the Amors are over 8. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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