Given name & surname
Amato
“beloved”
Amato is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “beloved.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “beloved.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amato through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 87
- 87 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 11 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 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 155 as a first name in 2020; 11,942 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.
Amato’s family of names
Amato shares a linguistic root with Amado. Amato has a related form in Amadeus. In Italian usage, Amato has a conventional equivalent in the French form Aimé.
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amato
- Amatus LusitanusPortuguese physician (1511-1568)
- Amato RonconiItalian saint1226–1292
- Amato CicirettiItalian football playerborn 1993
- AmatusBenedictine monk560–625
- Amatus of NuscoItalian Roman Catholic bishop1003–1093
- Aimé-Pierre FrutazItalian archaeologist and historian (1907-1980)
- Amato AmatiItalian geographer and historian (1831–1904)
- Amato FerrariItalian racing driverborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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