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
Grammatical form

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

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.