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Amerigo

Boys' name

Possibly hard work, struggle + king, through *Amalarīks

Amerigo has been given to 359 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1917, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Amerigo, 1972

1 in 629,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amerigo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly hard work, struggle + king, through *Amalarīks

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amerigo means

Amerigo belongs to the name family reached through Amerigo → *Amalarīks. Its meaning is “hard work, struggle + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Amerigo is used in Italian.

Amerigo comes through Proto-Germanic *Amalarīks, Indonesian personal name and Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emmerich and *Amalarīks.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Amerigo is pronounced /a.meˈri.ɡo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 359 boys were recorded with the name Amerigo between 1910 and 1972. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1917; its best national rank was #925 in 1911.

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 Amerigo?

Amerigo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1972
1 in 629,000
5 of 3,142,796 births
Among boys only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1972
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
435,685 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amerigo 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 1972 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 435,685 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amerigo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amerigos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amerigo was born before 1920 — so the typical Amerigo is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (171).

Is Amerigo 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 1917 (29)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#925
1911

Spellings of Amerigo

Amerigo is not the most common spelling — Americo is, with 74.9% against Amerigo's 9.2%.

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 Amerigo is used

Across 1910–2025, Amerigo was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 161,842 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  2. 2New 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. Amerigo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amerigo around the world

Where Amerigo 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
    1927–1961
    #1,678
    in 1961
  • South Australia
    1956–1981
    #425
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Amerigo 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
#925
1911
Peak year
1917
29 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
1972
All-time count
359
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amerigo

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

AmeliaAmelioAmenadielAmeyaAmericoAmerisAmeirAmedeoAmereAmelAmellAmericusAmeenIndigoAmerionInigoAmenAmeriAmedeeAmerAmedioAmesAmerySantigo

Sibling names for Amerigo

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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