Amílcar
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Phoenician-Punic Ha-Melkarth, from melk-karth 'king of the city'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amilkar/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amílcar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 89K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 5K
- VEVenezuela1 in 6K
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.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
4,746 people
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 Amilcar in US United States, PR Puerto Rico.
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)
Phoenician-Punic Ha-Melkarth, from melk-karth 'king of the city'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Amílcar is read(measured from records)
Amílcar is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish72%
Phoenician-Punic Ha-Melkarth, from melk-karth 'king of the city'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese20%
a male given name from Punic, equivalent to English Hamilcar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amílcar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | — | 4,746 | 1 in 6K | 4.7K | Amílcar | 7 |
| US United States | — | 3,723 | 1 in 89K | 3.7K | Amilcar | 151 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,656 | 1 in 128K | 2K | Amílcar | 23 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 948 | 1 in 18K | 948 | — | 7 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Amílcar | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 677 | 1 in 5K | 677 | — | 5 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Amílcar | 26 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #392 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 6 | Amilcar | 5 |
4,746 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996), counting the spelling amilcar. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amílcar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Amante, que ama
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amílcar de Sousab. 1876PTPortuguese medical doctor (1876–1940)
- Amílcar Barbuyb. 1893BRBrazilian footballer and manager (1893–1965)
- Amílcar Vasconcellosb. 1915UYUruguayan politician
- Amílcar Cabralb. 1924PTGuinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean politician (1924-1973)
- Amílcar Spencer Lopesb. 1948CVCape Verdean politician, lawyer and diplomat
- Amílcar Romerob. 1948DODominican politician
- Amílcar Fonsecab. 1954PTPortuguese football player/manager
- Amílcar Falcãob. 1964PTPortuguese pharmacist
- Amílcar Villafuerte Trujillob. 1964MXMexican politician
- Amílcar Henríquezb. 1983PAPanamanian footballer (1983-2017)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2K | #6,027 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amílcar mean, and where does it come from?
- Phoenician-Punic Ha-Melkarth, from melk-karth 'king of the city' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Amílcar?
- In the etymology graph, Amilcare and Hamilcar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Amílcar?
- A machine transcription gives /amilkar/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Amílcar a male or female name?
- Amílcar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Amílcar have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Amílcar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amílcar.
- Where is Amílcar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amílcar is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Amílcar?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 4,746 people named Amílcar, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Amílcar compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Amílcar is the 392nd most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amílcar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/am%C3%ADlcarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Amílcar” — the 392nd most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.