Given name & surname
Amerigo
“ruler of the home”
Amerigo is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “ruler of the home.”
Original ItalianEnrico
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “ruler of the home.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
How it developed
Possibly from Proto-Germanic *Amalarīks, from Proto-Germanic *amalą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1910. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amerigo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 359
- 359 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 29 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 5 in 1972. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 29 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 173 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amerigo’s family of names
In Italian usage, Amerigo shares a linguistic root with the German form Emmerich. Amerigo has a related form in America. In Italian usage, Amerigo has a related form in Enrico.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Amerigo has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Enricovariant · Italian, English
- Americovariant · Italian
- Amalrichvariant · Italian, German
- Amalrigovariant · Italian
- Americavariant
- Amerikavariant
- Americusvariant · Latin
- Arrigovariant
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Across languages 20
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Amerigo
- Amerigo VespucciFlorentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer1454–1512
- Amerigo SeveriniItalian cyclist1931–2020
- Amerigo TotHungarian sculptor and actor (1909–1984)
- Amerigo DuminiItalian assassin (1894-1967)
- Amerigo Bartoli NatinguerraItalian painter and caricaturist (1890-1971)
- Aymeric of PiacenzaItalian Dominican scholar1250–1327
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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