Name

Name AMOUR

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 1,013 births of Amour in the countries below, which represents an average of 7 births of children bearing the first name Amour per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 43 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Amour
In Italiano

Nome Amour

Information about the first name Amour

We celebrate Amour on August 9th

The first name Amour has been assigned to:

50.64% to boys
49.36% to girls

The country where the first name Amour is the most common is:

France

This first name is on trend: Both (Unisex)

This first name has 5 letters including 3 vowels and 2 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Amour

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Amour : Amrou, Amuor, Amuro, Aurom, M Auro, Marou, Maruo, Mauro, Morua, Moura, Omaru, Oumar, Ramou, Rumao, Umaro, Umrao

Amour in Japanese ^*

Romaji	amoa
Katakana	アモア
Hiragana	あもあ
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Amour in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Amour

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English amour, from Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor.
The modern pronunciation is due to continual French influence; the expected development would be /ˈæmə(ɹ)/, as seen in enamour, enamoured.

Alternative forms

amor

Anagrams

Morua, Omura

Noun

amour (countable and uncountable, plural amours)
Courtship; flirtation.
A love affair.
A lover.
(obsolete) Love, affection.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA(key): /əˈmʊə/, /aˈmʊə/
(US) IPA(key): /ɑːˈmʊɹ/
Rhymes: (UK) -ʊə, (US) -ʊɹ

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor.
Sense 3 could be due to the influence of Middle French ameur (“lover”), from Old French ameor, from Latin amātor, but may instead be a semantic development from the first two senses; compare love (“love, lover”).

Alternative forms

amoure, amur

Noun

amour (plural amours)
love, affection
(rare) friendliness, amicability
(rare) lover, paramour

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /aˈmuːr/, /ˈamur/

Noun (Descendants)

English: amour, amor
Middle Scots: amour

Noun (Related terms)

amorette
amorous
enamoured
paramour

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Аму́р (Amúr).

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor. The regular phonetic development would be ameur, attested in Old French; there has probably been an influence from Old Occitan.

Noun

amour m or f (plural amours)
love

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /a.muʁ/

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /a.muʁ/
Rhymes: -uʁ
Homophone: amours

Proper noun

Amour m
The world's ninth longest river, forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin
An oblast in far eastern Russia; its administrative centre is Blagoveshchensk

Noun (Usage notes)

Though masculine when singular, the word amour is feminine when plural in the literary language; the same applies to délice and orgue.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French amor, from Latin amor.

Noun

amour m (plural amours)
love

Noun (Descendants)

French: amour
→ Middle English: amour, amoure, amurEnglish: amour, amorMiddle Scots: amour

Popularity of the name Amour

Number of AMOUR births per year

Popularity of the name Amour

Total births of Amour by country

		Births with the first name Amour
Country		Boys Girls
	France 1900 - 2022	495 284
	United State of America 1880 - 2022	0 188
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2021	0 22
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	8 0
	Germany 2000 - 2022	4 3
	Alberta 1980 - 2022	4 1
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	1 2
	Italy 1999 - 2021	1 0