Given name & surname
Amparo
“one who offers shelter; a protector”
Amparo is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “one who offers shelter; a protector.”
Original SpanishAmparito
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “one who offers shelter; a protector.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
The name draws on Spanish amparo, meaning “protection”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amparo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,333
- 17 boys · 3,316 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 73 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,001 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,001 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 12,231 as a first name in 2020; 1,703 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.
Amparo’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Amparo has a diminutive in AMPARITO. In Spanish usage, Amparo shares a linguistic root with the Catalan form EMPAR. Amparo has a conventional naming counterpart in Itzal.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amparo
- Amparo RivellesSpanish actress (1925–2013)
- Amparo MuñozSpanish actress and model, Miss Universe 1974 winner1954–2011
- Amparo BaróSpanish actress (1937–2015)
- Amparo Poch y GascónSpanish anarchist, pacifist, doctor, and activist1902–1968
- Amparo OchoaMexican singer1946–1994
- Amparo DávilaMexican writer1928–2020
- Amparo NogueraChilean actressborn 1965
- Amparo GrisalesColombian actress (born 1956 A.C)
- Amparo Soler LealSpanish film actress1933–2013
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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