Amancio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latín Amantius, de amans, 'que ama'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amɐ̃siu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amancio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 99K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 4.8K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latín Amantius, de amans, 'que ama'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amancio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Amancio | 39 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Amancio | 20 |
| BR Brazil | #774 | 2,128 | 1 in 99K | 3K | Amancio | 135 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Amancio | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,479 | 1 in 34K | 1.6K | Amancio | 42 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 144 | — | 1 |
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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present). 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)
Amancio 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.
From Latin Amantius ‘loving’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Spanish: from the Latin name: Amantius ‘loving’, a derivative of the present participle of am re to love. This name was borne by some half-dozen minor early saints, but there has been much confusion in the sources with the name Amandus ‘lovable’. Cognates: Catalan: Amans, Mans .
as a word
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)
- Amancio Jacinto Alcortab. 1805ARComposer and politician (1805-1862)
- Amancio Alcortab. 1842ARArgentine legal theorist, politician and diplomat (1842-1902)
- Amancio Williamsb. 1913ARArgentine architect (1913–1989)
- Amancio Ortegab. 1936ESSpanish business tycoon
- Amancio D'Silvab. 1936INIndian musician (1936-1996)
- Amancio Escapa Apariciob. 1938ESSpanish priest (1938–2017)
- Amancio Amarob. 1939ESSpanish footballer (1939–2023)
- Amancio Antonio Cid Pérezb. 1949ESSpanish politician
- Amancio Pradab. 1949ESSpanish singer and composer
- Amancio PeratonerESSpanish writer
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 41 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 56K | #410 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 134 | #22,332 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 134 | #22,310 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 55 | — |
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
- What does the name Amancio mean, and where does it come from?
- Latín Amantius, de amans, 'que ama'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How common is the name Amancio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,128 people named Amancio in 2022, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Amancio compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Amancio is the 774th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Amancio?
- A machine transcription gives /amɐ̃siu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Amancio a male or female name?
- Amancio 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 Amancio?
- In the etymology graph, Amantius is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Amancio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Amancio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amancio.
What do you want to know about Amancio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amancioThe 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, “Amancio” — the 774th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.