Amä
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese ama, from Late Latin amma, q.v.
- USUnited States1 in 712Kas Amman(measured from records)
- TGTogo≈1 in 6.5K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amä itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ama in US United States, BR Brazil, Amà in TN Tunisia, IT Italy and Àmã in DZ Algeria.
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)
- Old Galician-Portugueseama(measured from records)
- Late Latinamma(measured from records)
From Old Galician-Portuguese ama, from Late Latin amma, q.v.
Sources 6
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
- Nordic Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amä 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Àmã | 5 |
| TG Togo | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 4 | — | 13 |
| US United States | 467as Amman | 1 in 712K | 1.8K | Ama | 252 |
| BR Brazil | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 460K | 592 | Ama | 47 |
| IT Italy | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 168K | 3 | Amà | 28 |
| IN India | 304 | 1 in 4.4M | 304 | — | 32 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Amà | 3 |
| NO Norway | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 38 | — | 6 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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)
Amä is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xrn, mother
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amä mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Galician-Portuguese ama, from Late Latin amma, q.v. Recorded by Wiktionary and A Dictionary of Muslim Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Amä have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Amä in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled àmã.
- How common is the name Amä?
- In India, the national register counted 304 people named Amä, about 1 in 4.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Amä?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/am%C3%A4The 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, “Amä”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.