Amerigo
Amerigo was last recorded in 1972, when 5 babies were given it; 359 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amerigo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amerigo mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Amerigo is “a male given name, equivalent to English Amery”
From Proto-Germanic *Amalarīks, possibly merged with *Haimarīks (ancestor of Enrico and Enzo). Cognate with German Emmerich and English Amery.
/a.meˈri.ɡo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amerigo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,008, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1917, the peak
Amerigo peaked in 1917, when 29 boys were given it, #1,266 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | #5,008 | 3.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,471 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,877 | 6.3 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,793 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,475 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,300 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,206 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,085 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,414 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,793 | 17.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 11 | #2,595 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,842 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,226 | 12.8 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,889 | 16.5 |
| 1921 | 17 | #1,983 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,888 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 16 | #1,975 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,598 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,266 | 31.3 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,376 | 28.1 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,457 | 25.9 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,493 | 26.0 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,499 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,751 | 20.9 |
| 1911 | 13 | #925 | 57.5 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,596 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amerigo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amerigo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amerigo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amerigo, and how old are they?
An estimated 9 Americans named Amerigo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 173 people named Amerigo (4 women and girls, 169 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amerigo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Amerigo and names like it
- Compare Amerigo and MasaoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAmerigo peaked in 1917.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amerigo since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Amerigo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Amerigo.
- Names starting with AMost given first.