Ambrosio
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Spanish/Italian form of Ambrose; 'immortal'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ambrosio/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ambrosio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 10K
- ITItaly≈1 in 10K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spanish/Italian form of Ambrose; 'immortal'
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ambrosio is read(measured from records)
Ambrosio is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish48%
Del griego Ambrosios, 'inmortal', 'divino'; relacionado con la ambrosía.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English21%
Spanish/Italian form of Ambrose; 'immortal'
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- Portuguese21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ambrosio in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Ambrosio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #519 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 3.6K | Ambrosio | 136 |
| IT Italy | #693 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Ambrosio | 111 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Ambrosio | 36 |
| US United States | — | 3,963 | 1 in 84K | 4K | Ambrosio | 159 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Ambrosio | 50 |
| GT Guatemala | #360 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Ambrosio | 34 |
| AO Angola | #333 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Ambrosio | 22 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 258 | 1 in 13K | 258 | — | 19 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ambrosio 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, Latinized name used here as substitute short form
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
From Late Greek. See >Ambrose in main dictionary. Amparo ? Marian name meaning ‘protec-
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, forma italiana plena de Ambrosios/Ambrosius
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Amadísimo, el gran amor
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)
- Arturo Ambrosiob. 1870ITItalian film director and film producer (1870–1960)
- Vittorio Ambrosiob. 1879ITItalian army officer (1879-1958)
- Franco Ambrosiob. 1932ITItalian businessman (1932-2009)
- Gianni Ambrosiob. 1943ITItalian Catholic bishop
- Gabriella Ambrosiob. 1954ITItalian writer, journalist, academic, and advertising creative director.
- Luigi Ambrosiob. 1963ITItalian mathematician (1963-)
- Isabel Ambrosiob. 1970ESSpanish politician
- Marco Ambrosiob. 1973ITItalian footballer (1973-)
- Alessandra Ambrosiob. 1981BRBrazilian model
- Jesús Ruedab. 1987ESnot in their usual nameSpanish 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 57 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.6K | #4,118 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.6K | #1,545 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.6K | #4,300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,428 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 170 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 170 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 26 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #9,428 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 7 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1996 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Ambrosio mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish/Italian form of Ambrose; 'immortal' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Ambrosio?
- A machine transcription gives /ambrosio/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Ambrosio?
- In the etymology graph, Ambrose, Ambroise and Ambrosi are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ambrosio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Ambrosio in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ambrosio.
- How common is the name Ambrosio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,963 people named Ambrosio in 2010, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Ambrosio compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Ambrosio is the 519th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ambrosio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ambrosioThe 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, “Ambrosio” — the 519th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.