Amancio
Meaning
loving (from Latin Amantius); borne by businessman Amancio Ortega
The story
Amancio is the Spanish form of Amantius, a Latin name that Behind the Name glosses simply: it means loving. Several early saints carried it, and Spain still marks two name days for it, April 8 and November 4. The record adds a wrinkle the books own up to: Amantius was sometimes confused with Amandus, a separate name from the same Latin family of love-words. In the United States, Amancio has always been rare without ever quite vanishing; through the 1990s the Social Security record shows it in single digits when it shows it at all, then 19 boys in the 2000s, 16 in the 2010s, and 19 again so far in the 2020s. Spain gave the name two prominent modern bearers, the businessman Amancio Ortega, born 1936, and the footballer Amancio Amaro, commonly known simply as Amancio. Brazil's census counts 2,128, and its decade rows there have thinned steadily since the 1950s.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Amancio has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
2,128 people · the #4,902 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 100,000 · median age 62
Among people named Amancio living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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