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Amato

Boys' name

Form of Amatus

Amato has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Amato, 2021

1 in 565,000

Amato over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amato: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Amatus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amato means

Amato is a form of Amatus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Amato is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /a.ˈmaː.to/ for Amato.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amatus and Amata.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Amato is pronounced /aˈma.to/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 87 boys were recorded with the name Amato between 1914 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,635 in 1922.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Amato?

Amato had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amato 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amato. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amatos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amato was born before 1922 — so the typical Amato is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
11
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1920s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Amato 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (11)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,635
1922

Spellings of Amato

Amato is not the most common spelling — Mateo is, with 57.1% against Amato's 0.04%.

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 Amato is used

Across 1910–2025, Amato was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New 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. Amato has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amato around the world

Where Amato 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.

  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #561
    in 1961

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Amato by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,635
1922
Peak year
1922
11 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
87
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amato

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

AmarrAmaelAmairAmaroAmahriAmaviAmadiAmaiAmaisAmaziAmaraAmarioAmaadAmahdAmaduAmancioAmareonAmaarAmanteMatoAmaudAmasaAmaiasAmal

Sibling names for Amato

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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