Amador
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: loving
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amadoɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amador is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Honduras than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 272(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 289
- CRCosta Rica1 in 497
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.
- Honduras (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 272 (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
loving
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Amador is read(measured from records)
Amador 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.
- Spanish71%
loving
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
county, CA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Amador 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #28 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 272 | — | Amador | 64 |
| ES Spain | #218 | 24,656 | 1 in 2K | 25K | Amador | 158 |
| US United States | — | 22,370 | 1 in 15K | 23K | Amador | 335 |
| NI Nicaragua | #28 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 289 | — | Amador | 44 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | listed | Amador | 57 |
| CR Costa Rica | #114 | 10,259 | 1 in 497 | 10K | Amador | 78 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #129 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Amador | 36 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register. 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)
Amador is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Latín Amator, 'amante, galán, amigo'; de amo, 'amar'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
$ From Latin Amator ‘lover’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Spanish: from the Latin name Am tor ‘lover’ (an agent derivative of am re to love). It was borne by a 9th-century Cordoban priest who was executed by the Moors for his Christian faith.
as a word
In Portuguese, amateur (someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- José María Amadorb. 1781USCalifornio soldier, rancher, and gold miner
- Manuel Amador Guerrerob. 1833PAPresident of Panama (1833-1909)
- Rafael Amadorb. 1959MXMexican footballer (1959-2018)
- Reinaldo Naviab. 1978CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Santos Amadorb. 1982BObolivian footballer and manager
- Andrey Amadorb. 1986CRCosta Rican road bicycle racer
- Jair Amadorb. 1989PTSpanish association football player
- Juan José Amadorb. 1998COColombian cyclist
- Rvfvb. 2001ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Fernando Álvarezb. 2003USnot in their usual nameColombian-Mexican footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.4K | #291 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.8K | #649 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.5K | #4,230 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #4,230 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Amador mean, and where does it come from?
- loving Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Amador?
- A machine transcription gives /amadoɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Amador?
- In the etymology graph, Amatore and Amator are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Amador have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Amador in Honduras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amador.
- How common is the name Amador?
- In Spain, the national register counted 24,656 people named Amador, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Amador compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Amador is the 28th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amadorThe 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, “Amador” — the 28th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.