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Amparo

#10,997 in 2025Girls' name

Protection

Amparo has been given to 3,333 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #10,997 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Amparo, 2025

1 in 414,000

Amparo over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amparo: meaning, origin, and history

Protection

Spanish

What Amparo means

Amparo means “protection”, associated with amparo.

Origin, language, and formation

Amparo is used in Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include María.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Amparo is pronounced /amˈpaɾo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,316 girls were recorded with the name Amparo between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1927; its best national rank was #845 in 1928.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,034 in 2015 to #10,997 in 2025.

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Amparo between 1931 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1986; its best national rank was #3,472 in 1940.

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 Amparo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,997
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amparo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amparo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amparos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amparo was born before 1954 — so the typical Amparo is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,823
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 17.7% of all recorded uses (587).

Is Amparo 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
+4,451
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,963
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.0%
Peak was 1927 (73)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#845
1928

Spellings of Amparo

Amparo is not the most common spelling — Amara is, with 51.2% against Amparo's 5.9%.

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 Amparo is used

Across 1910–2025, Amparo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 22,136 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Amparo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amparo around the world

Where Amparo 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
    1915–2009
    #5,216
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1973–1973
    #695
    in 1973

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.

Notable people named Amparo

People whose public names include Amparo, 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.

Amparo in other languages

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

Babesne

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

Amparo by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,997
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#845
1928
Peak year
1927
73 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,316
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,472
1940
Peak year
1986
7 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amparo

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

CharoCaroCamaroAmpleToccaroSharoTamaroAlvaroBisharo

Names with a curve like Amparo

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

JovitaRaymondVeliaGenovevaDelfinaHerminiaEnedinaHortenciaConcepcionLorenzaCruzSocorro

Sibling names for Amparo

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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