Entry № 6771 · Latin origin

Memory Memory — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEM-uh-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Remembrance (Cats musical's iconic song)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "remembrance (cats musical's iconic song)".

Memory is from the Latin memoria (remembrance, recollection). Memorywood Foundation — American naming.

Remembrance (Cats musical's iconic song) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Memory
Transliteration
Memory
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɛm.ə.ri /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Memory stands.

Memory does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Memorys before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Memory (Cats)
Lloyd Webber's iconic Broadway song.
1981

Names connected to Memory.

The number behind Memory.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Memory reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.