Given name & surname
Amante
Amante is a surname. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Amante isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amante through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 251
- 251 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,115 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +77%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,115 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 379 as a first name in 2020; 1,010 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amante’s family of names
In French usage, Amante has a diminutive in Mandy. In Greek usage, Amante as a surname is a transliteration of Αμάντε.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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