Amparo

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: shelter, sanctuary

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ampaɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Amparo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 79th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 986(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 1.1K
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 1.4K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

50,715 people

Sources
302 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 986 (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

In some Hispanic jurisdictions, such as Mexico: a writ or an appeal demanding or seeking the protection of constitutional rights similar to a habeas corpus acting as a remedy for the violation of a person's constitutional rights thereby invalidating any laws preventing said person from exercising them.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Amparo is read(measured from records)

Amparo 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.

  • Spanish80%

    shelter, sanctuary

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    del latín vulgar anteparare ‘proteger, preparar delante’; ‘abrigo, defensa, protección’.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English8.3%

    In some Hispanic jurisdictions, such as Mexico: a writ or an appeal demanding or seeking the protection of constitutional rights similar to a habeas corpus acting as a remedy for the violation of a person's constitutional rights thereby invalidating any laws preventing said person from exercising them.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Spanish, 'protection; shelter'

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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)

Amparo 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.

Where Amparo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#13250,7151 in 98655KAmparo190
CO Colombia#154≈46,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K23Amparo120
PH Philippines#737≈28,000 est.≈1 in 3.8KlistedAmparo65
US United States—12,2311 in 27K12KAmparo302
PE Peru#369≈7,900 est.≈1 in 4K—Amparo67
EC Ecuador—6,7371 in 2.5K6.7KAmparo43
NI Nicaragua#79≈4,500 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Amparo14

50,715 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; INEC — civil registry 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Amparo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Amparó, Ámparo, Ampáro

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ámparo, Ampáro

  • Lao given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Peru, Spain, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written อัมภะโร, Ampharo, อมภะโร

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Russia, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Ампаро

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Amparo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Spanish: from the vocabulary word amparo protection (from the verb amparar to help or protect, Late Latin antepar re to prepare in advance). The given name was coined with reference to the role of the Virgin Mary in affording protection to Christians.

    as a word

  • In Asturian, first-person singular present indicative of amparar

    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)

19001920194019601980Amparo Poch y Gascón, b. 1902Amparito Arozamena, b. 1916Amparo Rivelles, b. 1925Amparo Soler Leal, b. 1933Amparo Baró, b. 1937Amparo Valle, b. 1939Amparo Muñoz, b. 1954Amparo Grisales, b. 1956Amparo Larrañaga, b. 1963Amparo Noguera, b. 1965

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)

InformalHola Amparo,Hi Amparo, (English)

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 50 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Amparo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—55K#86
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—51K#172
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012K#2,172
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20246.7K#283
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020221#2,172
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—23#98
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20258—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19867—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20243—
PH PhilippinesPhilippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg)———
PH PhilippinesTagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Amparo come from?
In some Hispanic jurisdictions, such as Mexico: a writ or an appeal demanding or seeking the protection of constitutional rights similar to a habeas corpus acting as a remedy for the violation of a pe… Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Amparo mean?
In Spanish, shelter, sanctuary
How do you pronounce Amparo?
A machine transcription gives /ampaɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Amparo a male or female name?
Amparo is a female 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 Amparo have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Amparo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amparo.
Where is Amparo most common?
Amparo is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 986 people carrying it.
How common is the name Amparo?
In Spain, the national register counted 50,715 people named Amparo, about 1 in 986 residents.
How common is Amparo compared with other names?
In Spain, Amparo is the 132nd most common given name of 135,644 given names 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, “Amparo” — the 132nd most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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