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The AMATO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,411 2676 0.005 46
United States (1880 census) 20 73720 0 0
Change since 1880 +12391 +71044 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 576 2819 0.004 35
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for AMATO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,457 638 0.013 129
New Jersey 1,708 399 0.020 203
Florida 1,073 1812 0.007 67
Pennsylvania 894 1538 0.007 73
California 880 3283 0.003 26
Top States for AMATO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 1,708 399 0.020 203
Connecticut 473 772 0.014 139
New York 2,457 638 0.013 129
Rhode Island 103 1437 0.010 98
Delaware 73 1818 0.009 93

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called AMATO live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called AMATO represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called AMATO in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a AMATO by picking someone at random in New Jersey than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of AMATO

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the AMATO surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of AMATO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 488 3.93
Mixed Race 158 1.27
Asian/Pacific 67 0.54
Black/African American 35 0.28
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.19
White (Caucasian) 11,640 93.79

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the AMATO surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of AMATO in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of AMATO.

Similar names to AMATO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AMATO.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for AMATO

The following words are slight variants of AMATO that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.