Given name & surname
Amory
“ruler and lover of one's home”
Amory is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “ruler and lover of one's home.”
Original GermanAmalrich
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “ruler and lover of one's home.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
How it developed
From Proto-Germanic *amalą (“vigor, bravery”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amory through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,309
- 679 boys · 630 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 71 babies
- 2025
- 19
- #7,222 for boys · #11,000 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 54% boys.
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,222 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 12.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 39 in 2019. It also appeared in 8 birth records for girls in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,020 as a first name in 2020; 506 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amory’s family of names
In English usage, Amory shares a linguistic root with the Old High German form Amolrih. In English usage, Amory has a related form in Emery. Amory has a related form in Amorette.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Amory has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Amory comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amory
- Amory LovinsAmerican energy policy analystborn 1947
- Amo HoughtonAmerican politician (1926–2020)
- Amory Nelson HardyAmerican photographer (1834–1911)
- Amory HansenDanish tennis player (1887-1961)
- Slats GillAmerican basketball player-coach (1901–1966)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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