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Amory

Unisex name · Current

Living in the US
~1,300 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#7,194 among boys
Births in 2025
19 1,309 since 1880
Typical age
13 years, median

Amory popularity over time

Amory rank by birth year, 1915–2025Amory ranked #3,392 in 1915 and #7,194 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #3,025, in 2020.#10,000#7,194best #3,025 in 2020192019401960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1915–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

2020 is the peak year for Amory, with 71 births. The name does not appear in the data until 1915. In 2025 it ranked #7,194 with 19 births.

Over ten years the count has fallen 55%. It slipped 2761 places against the previous year.

Babies named Amory per yearPeaks at 71 births in 2020.71 in 20200192019401960198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Amory?

Roughly 1,300 Amorys are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 1,309 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 620 women and 630 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Amory?

Half of living Amorys are older than 13, half younger. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Amory a current name.

Your Amory

Ages of living people named AmoryHalf of living Amorys are older than 13 and half younger.median 13020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Amory a boy's or a girl's name?

48% girls52% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Recent births under the name Amory divide almost evenly between girls and boys. Across the whole record, 48.1% of births under the name were girls.

Where the name Amory comes from

Medieval personal name from Proto-Germanic *amalą (“vigor, bravery”) + *rīks (“ruler”). For the first element, compare *ammōną (“to bother, irritate”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Amory

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Amory Lovins American energy policy analyst 1947 23
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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