Amato

At the 2020 census, 11,942 Americans bore the surname Amato — 2,951st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,000.

By the numbers

People: 11,942
Rank: 2,951st
How common: 1 in 25,000
Per 100,000: 4.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

Borrowed from Italian Amato.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Amato described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.0%
Hispanic or Latino 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Amato

Giuliano Amato (born 1938)Italian politician
Angelo Amato (1938–2024)cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Giuseppe Amato (1899–1964)Italian film producer and director, and screenwriter
Pasquale Amato (1878–1942)Italian opera singer
Bianca AmatoSouth African actress

People named Amato with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Amato

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.