Memory

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 19 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
19
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Memory by the numbers

Memory was given to 19 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 36 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Memory

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Sounds like Memory

Names that are said the same way as Memory, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

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