Amàto
surname · Latin script
Amàto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Italy it is the 68th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Amato.
- ARArgentina1 in 16K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 26K
- BRBrazil1 in 91K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
12,713 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Amato in AR Argentina, IT Italy, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Italian Amato.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amàto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,713 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Amato | 202 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,834 | 1 in 16K | 2.8K | Amato | 76 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,331 | 1 in 91K | 2.3K | Amato | 94 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 790 | 1 in 11K | 790 | Amato | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 347 | 1 in 9.8K | 347 | Amato | 20 |
| BE Belgium | — | 280 | 1 in 42K | 298 | Amato | 27 |
| IT Italy | #68 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 35M | 3 | Amato | 154 |
12,713 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amàto mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Amato. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Amàto have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Amàto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amato.
- Where is Amàto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amàto is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 9.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Amàto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,713 people named Amàto in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Amàto compared with other names?
- In Italy, Amàto is the 68th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amàto” — the 68th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.