Amorah

#92 in South Carolina

Meaning of Amorah

Amorah drifts onto the birth-certificate page like a soft Mediterranean breeze, her syllables—uh-MOR-uh—ringing with the lilting promise of “amor,” the Latin and modern Italian word for love. Linguists trace the name back to ancient Rome, where poets tucked the root into honeyed odes, yet parents from Naples to New York have recently reclaimed it, polishing the old gem for twenty-first-century wear. In Hebrew lore one finds a distant echo in “Amora,” a sage or speaker of the Talmud, so Amorah carries both the rose-scented romance of the Via dell’Amore and the thoughtful gravity of scholarly scrolls. American statistics tell a quiet success story: she has waltzed up the national charts from a handful of births in 2005 to nearly a hundred in 2024, proof that love—like a well-pulled espresso—never goes out of style. With meanings that whisper affection and history that spans sea-sprayed coasts and desert parchment, Amorah offers a name as radiant as a Sicilian sunrise and as enduring as the promise in a lover’s gaze.

Pronunciation

English

  • Pronunced as uh-MOR-uh (/əˈmɔrə/)

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