Amante

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: loving

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

Amante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 339K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 18K
  • ARArgentina1 in 26K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

1,745 people

Sources
202 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

loving (affectionate)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

How Amante is read(measured from records)

Amante 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.

  • English44%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Amante in English.

  • Spanish38%

    loving

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

  • Portuguese7.8%

    loving (affectionate)

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

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Amante 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 Amante is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—1,7451 in 26K1.7KAmante1
BR Brazil—1,2061 in 176K1.2K—2
US United States—9821 in 339K1KAmante202
ES Spain—3191 in 157K319—17
UY Uruguay—1851 in 18K185——
PH Philippines#567———Amante88

1,745 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

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

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Brazil, United States, Portugal

    Also written Amanté

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France, United States, Italy

    Also written Ämäňťë, Amantė, Àmånté, Amanté, Ämäntë

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Philippines, United States, Canada

    Also written Amantè, Àmànte

  • Arabic surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Ämånté, Amântë, Àmånté, Amànté, Amänte

48 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)

Amante 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 Italian, do latim amans, amantis; apelativo ou antigo nome próprio

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Latin, Latín Amans, 'que ama, amante'; de amo, 'amar'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In French, female equivalent of amant (“lover”)

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

  • In Latin, ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of amāns

    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)

18001850190019502000Errico Amante, b. 1816Felix Amante, b. 1908Amelia de la Rama, b. 1927Angelica Amante-Matba, b. 1970Angela Amante, b. 1973

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 35 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Amante
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,799
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,603
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010982#25,226
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000806#28,005
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—319#11,477
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—319#11,462
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—185—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Amante come from?
loving (affectionate) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Amante have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Amante, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amante.
Where is Amante most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amante is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Amante mean?
In Spanish, loving
What are other forms of the name Amante?
In the etymology graph, Amor is a form of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Amante?
In Argentina, the national register counted 1,745 people named Amante, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
How common is Amante compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Amante is the 567th most common surname of 876,464 surnames 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, “Amante” — the 567th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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