Amilcare
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the name of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amilkare/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amilcare is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Italy.
- ITItaly
- BRBrazil
- ARArgentina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the name of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal. The name is Phoenician and means ‘friend of the god Melkar’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- ITItaly
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- ARArgentina
- FRFrance
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Amilcare is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a male given name, equivalent to Ancient Greek Ἀμίλκᾱς (Amílkās)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Da Melk-karth, 're della città', epiteto del dio fenicio Baal; in onomastica il nome di Annibale.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do nome fenício Himelqahr; nome próprio que originou o sobrenome
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Italian: from the name of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca (d. c. 228 BC), father of Hannibal. Hamilcar led the Carthaginian army against the Romans in the First Punic War, and was chiefly responsible for establishing Carthaginian influence in Spain. His name is composed of the Phoenician elements hi friend + the divine name Melkar .
as a word
In Latin, ablative singular of Amilcar
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)
- Amilcare Pauluccib. 1773ITItalian aristocrat (1773–1845)
- Amilcare Ponchiellib. 1834ITItalian composer (1834-1886)
- Amilcare Malagolab. 1840ITCatholic cardinal (1840–1895)
- Amilcare Ciprianib. 1843ITItalian anarchist (1843-1918)
- Amilcare Zanellab. 1873ITItalian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1949)
- Benito Mussolinib. 1883ITnot in their usual namedictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
- Amilcare Berettab. 1892ITItalian swimmer and boxer
- Amilcare Rossib. 1895ITItalian politician
- Amilcare Canevarib. 1905ITItalian rower
- Amilcare Sgalbazzib. 1955ITItalian bicycle racer
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 23 | #45,938 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1914 | 6 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 1 | #6,573 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1975 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1965 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1955 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1983 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 1 | #6,632 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1958 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1956 | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Amilcare come from?
- From the name of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal. The name is Phoenician and means ‘friend of the god Melkar’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Amilcare?
- A machine transcription gives /amilkare/ (IPA) for Italian.
- What does the name Amilcare mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the name of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal.
- Is Amilcare a male or female name?
- Amilcare 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.
- What are other forms of the name Amilcare?
- In the etymology graph, Amílcar and Hamilcar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Amilcare have the most bearers?
- Amilcare is most frequently recorded in Italy.
What do you want to know about Amilcare?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amilcareThe 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, “Amilcare”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.