Given name & surname
Amarante
“a flower that never fades”
Amarante is a variant of Amaranta. One Latin interpretation is “a flower that never fades.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Amarante is a variant of Amaranta. One Latin interpretation is “a flower that never fades.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Amarante is a variant of Amaranta. An origin associated with Amaranta is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Amarante, from Early Medieval Latin Amaranthus (“Amarantus' villa”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amarante through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 23
- 23 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1933
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 1933. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 110 as a first name in 2020; 1,050 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.
Amarante’s family of names
Amarante has a related form in Amaranta.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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