Amparo
Amparo was given to 8 girls in 2025, #10,997 among girls’ names; 3,333 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,970 Americans named Amparo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 36 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amparo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amparo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Amparo is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “protection” (amparo).
From amparo (“protection”), from María (del) Amparo, shortened from María de los Desamparados, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as “Our Lady of the Helpless” in Valencia.
/amˈpaɾo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amparo?
#10,997 among girls’ names, 2025
Amparo fell from #8,034 in 2015 to #10,997 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 5.0 per million.
73 babies in 1927, the peak
Amparo peaked in 1927, when 73 girls were given it, #863 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,997 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,448 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,256 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,298 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,437 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,432 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,819 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,934 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,034 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,710 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #14,737 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,284 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,250 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,560 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,526 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,533 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,126 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,504 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,840 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,850 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,071 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,143 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,338 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,316 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,500 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,371 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,016 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,833 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,583 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,014 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,678 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,139 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,155 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,431 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,522 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,037 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,526 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,057 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,132 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,615 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,982 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,017 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,158 | 28.2 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,802 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,480 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,863 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,669 | 20.2 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,212 | 25.9 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,025 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,499 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,979 | 28.1 |
| 1972 | 41 | #1,975 | 27.0 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,805 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,311 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,397 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,206 | 18.3 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,213 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,308 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,205 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,349 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,546 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,782 | 20.8 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,117 | 15.4 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,149 | 14.3 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,108 | 14.3 |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,588 | 22.4 |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,989 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,005 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,667 | 19.4 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,875 | 16.0 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,530 | 21.8 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,610 | 19.4 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,480 | 22.2 |
| 1950 | 46 | #1,351 | 26.9 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,602 | 19.9 |
| 1948 | 50 | #1,298 | 29.4 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,358 | 25.9 |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,394 | 24.8 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,514 | 22.2 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,698 | 18.1 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,703 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,389 | 25.2 |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,418 | 24.8 |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,150 | 35.0 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,475 | 23.7 |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,092 | 39.0 |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,234 | 32.0 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,378 | 26.9 |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,182 | 34.3 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,063 | 41.2 |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,123 | 38.7 |
| 1932 | 60 | #906 | 56.2 |
| 1931 | 60 | #887 | 56.4 |
| 1930 | 54 | #1,002 | 48.0 |
| 1929 | 64 | #895 | 57.3 |
| 1928 | 73 | #845 | 63.3 |
| 1927 | 73 | #863 | 61.2 |
| 1926 | 71 | #879 | 59.9 |
| 1925 | 57 | #989 | 46.8 |
| 1924 | 68 | #920 | 54.4 |
| 1923 | 57 | #992 | 47.2 |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,168 | 35.8 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,279 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,133 | 36.7 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,565 | 23.0 |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,540 | 23.3 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,924 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,869 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,145 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,011 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,891 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,646 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,203 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amparo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amparo has been given almost only to girls: 17 boys in 113 years of records.
Girls and boys named Amparo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amparo, and how old are they?
1,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 59% of the 3,333 Americans ever recorded as Amparo. The median Amparo alive today is 52 years old; half are between 36 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 12,231 people named Amparo (12,010 women and girls, 221 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,175 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 183 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 524 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 486 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 462 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 229 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 83 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Amparo born?
The states with the most babies named Amparo are Texas, California and New York, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,282 | not ranked | 5.8× |
| California | 907 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| New York | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 30 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Amparo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amparo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1911 it was given 5.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amparo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amparo
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 Amparo and names like it
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amparo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Amparo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Amparo.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Amparo alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.