Amasa
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Amasa is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: Amasa's intervention represents a powerful moment of mercy, repentance, and recognition of kinship that transcended the political division between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Amasa's intervention represents a powerful moment of mercy, repentance, and recognition of kinship that transcended the political division between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. His actions, prompted by a prophet's rebuke, exemplify obedience to God's will over military victory and national pride, highlighting the biblical call to act justly and love mercy.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amasa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 206 | — |
| US United States | — | 72 | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | listed | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Amasa 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.
Amasa is a biblical name meaning "burden-bearer." The most positive namesake is a leader of Ephraim who showed great compassion and courage by standing up for justice and caring for captives, making it a name associated with strength, mercy, and righteous leadership.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Amasa (Hebrew: עֲמָשָׂא) is derived from the Hebrew verb 'amas' (עָמַס), meaning "to load" or "carry a load," and is often interpreted as "burden" or "burden-bearer".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Burden
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In Esperanto, mass
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)
- Amasa Learnedb. 1750USAmerican politician (1750-1825)
- Amasa Walkerb. 1799USU.S. Representative and economist (1799-1875)
- Amasa J. Parkerb. 1807USAmerican politician (1807-1890)
- Amasa Lymanb. 1813USAmerican Mormon leader (1813-1877)
- Amasa Stoneb. 1818USAmerican industrialist (1818–1883)
- Amasa Cobbb. 1823USUnion Army general (1823–1905)
- Amasa Norcrossb. 1824USAmerican politician (1824-1898)
- Francis Amasa Walkerb. 1840USUnion Army general and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1840-1897)
- William Amasa Scottb. 1862USAmerican economist (1862-1944)
- Amasa Coleman Leeb. 1880USAmerican politician
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 300 | #10,566 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 206 | #17,357 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Amasa mean, and where does it come from?
- Amasa's intervention represents a powerful moment of mercy, repentance, and recognition of kinship that transcended the political division between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Amasa a male or female name?
- Amasa is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Amasa have the most bearers?
- Amasa is most frequently recorded in India.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amasaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Amasa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.