Amora
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Love
- Origin
- Spanish
About the Name Amora
Amora descends from the Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese word amor meaning "love" — combined with the Latinate -a feminine ending. The name appears in modern American naming records starting in the 1990s and is essentially a 20th-21st century American/Spanish-American invention with the in-built love etymological register.
Notable contemporary bearers include American basketball player Amora McKinley; the contemporary fictional Amora of various contemporary novels; the iconic Marvel Comics character Amora the Enchantress (introduced 1964 in Journey into Mystery, the Asgardian sorceress who often opposes Thor); and various contemporary American social media influencers.
Amora's American climb is recent: the name climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 2010 to the US top 300 girls' rank by 2018 and the top 200 since. The name has been driven primarily by Spanish-American, Italian-American, and Portuguese-American naming. The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the layered Latin-Italian-Spanish-Portuguese pedigree, the in-built distinctive love etymological register, and the popular three-syllable -ora ending family (Amora, Aurora, Adora, Cora). Three flowing syllables, soft consonants, and tonal warmth distinctive to Latinate-derived naming. The name reads as distinctly contemporary American. Common nicknames Mora (back-end shortening), Amy (back-end shortening, a popular standalone name on its own), Mor, and the rare Moriah each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings Amora and Amorah have their own SSA tracking. International forms include Amour (French masculine), Amore (Italian masculine), and the original Latin amor.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Amora
US Popularity History (2017–2025)
Annual US births named Amora by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 1,259 girls named Amora (girl rank #247 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Amora Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Amora the strongest states are New Mexico, Michigan, Alabama.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Mexico | #238 | 29 |
| 2 | Michigan | #294 | 318 |
| 3 | Alabama | #295 | 122 |
| 4 | Mississippi | #311 | 76 |
| 5 | Nevada | #334 | 58 |
| 6 | South Carolina | #341 | 144 |
| 7 | Maryland | #353 | 165 |
| 8 | Ohio | #354 | 266 |
| 9 | Connecticut | #357 | 64 |
| 10 | North Carolina | #357 | 332 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | #659 | 16 |
| 2 | Massachusetts | #616 | 47 |
| 3 | Minnesota | #580 | 63 |
| 4 | Colorado | #528 | 88 |
| 5 | California | #522 | 508 |
| 6 | Washington | #504 | 111 |
| 7 | New Jersey | #487 | 117 |
| 8 | Texas | #478 | 631 |
| 9 | Tennessee | #463 | 176 |
| 10 | Oregon | #448 | 30 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Amora in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Amora to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Amora against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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