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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.