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Amador

#4,253 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Amator

Amador has been given to 3,372 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #4,253 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Amador, 2025

1 in 138,000

Amador over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amador: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Amator

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amador means

Amador is a form of Amator.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amator.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,372 boys were recorded with the name Amador between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,025 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,859 in 2020 to #4,253 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,780 in 2015 to #4,253 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Amador?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,253
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amador sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amador. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amadors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amador was born before 1975 — so the typical Amador is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
12.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,476
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Choose a decade

1990s — 12.6% of all recorded uses (425).

Is Amador rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+184
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+606
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−473
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 1992 (52)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,025
1908

Spellings of Amador

Amador is not the most common spelling — Major is, with 51.8% against Amador's 8.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Amador is used

Across 1910–2025, Amador was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 23,704 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Amador has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amador around the world

Where Amador ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1921–2002
    #4,067
    in 2002

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Amador

People whose public names include Amador, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Amador in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Amador. Linked forms have their own page here.

AmadoAmatore

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Amador by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,253
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 606
Best rank ever
#1,025
1908
Peak year
1992
52 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,372
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Amador

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AmauriAmadeoAmauryAmaniAmandoAmadouAmarionAmadoAmareeAmareAmadeusAmariiAmarisAmandaAmanAmarAmaanAmarieAmaruAmarriAmaziahAmanuelTheodorAmante

Names with a curve like Amador

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Amador, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BlasClementeFaustinoEdmundoJacintoTeodoroHilarioReymundoFlorentinoNilsErasmoDionicio

Sibling names for Amador

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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