girls:
134 births since 1978
#5582 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1913
#3371 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1913
#6371 (18th percentile)
The name Amando is the #6,371 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,372 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 17.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,371 (26.5% percentile) for all time with 1,238 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,582 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 134 births since 1978.
Amando first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1978 for girls). Birth data for Amando is available in 106 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (106 years for boys and 14 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Amando has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Amando reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #790) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Amando ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 28.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Amando reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #797) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Amando".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Amando. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.1% confident that Amando is pronounced as uh-MAN-doh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-MAHN-doh, at 31.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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