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Amador Name Meaning & Historical Trends

Amador

Pronunciation: ah-mah-DOR

Meaning Lover Gender Boy
BOYS RANK
#4,254
TREND
164
Peak Years
1992, 1997, 1979
Lowest Years
1912, 1913, 1908
Energy Archetype
Powerful & Complete

Rank shows the name’s position among U.S. baby names for each gender in 2025. Trend shows how many places it rose or fell since 2024. Rank 1 is the most popular. Based on U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) data. Peak and lowest years are based on the number of boys named Amador in the available records.

Fun Facts About the Name Amador

  • More than 3 thousand babies named Amador: U.S. records list 3,372 babies given the name Amador from 1880 through 2025.

What Does the Name Amador Mean?

Amador is a Spanish and Portuguese masculine given name meaning "lover" or "one who loves." It comes from the Latin Amator, an agent noun formed from amare ("to love") with the suffix -tor. In Christian Latin, Amator was sometimes understood as "lover of God," a religious interpretation of the same literal meaning. The feminine form is Amadora. Amador is not a form of Amadeus, which derives from a different Latin phrase meaning "love God."

Amador Name History & Origins

The Latin name Amator was used in early Christian communities and was borne by several saints, including Amator, a fourth-century bishop of Auxerre in Gaul. Through the Latin church and medieval Romance languages, the name passed into Iberian usage as Amador in Spanish and Portuguese. In the Iberian Peninsula it appears as both a given name and a hereditary surname, and it is also found in Latin America. The French shrine of Rocamadour is associated with a hermit called Amadour, a French form of the same Latin name; according to tradition, the place-name means "rock of Amadour." This traditional account is separate from the development of the Spanish and Portuguese given name, though both ultimately reflect the Latin Amator.

How Popular is the Name Amador?

Amador has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1992. Its best rank was #1,025 in 1908.

U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.

Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.

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How the Name Amador Shapes Your Personality and Life?

Powerful and complete. You are good intellectually and require several outlets for your energies. You are not a builder but a planner, and you want others to carry out your plans. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.

You are very intuitive. You have a reservoir of inspired wisdom combined with inherited analytical ability, which could reward you through expressions of spiritual leadership, business analysis, marketing, artistic visions, and scientific research. Operating on spiritual side of your individuality can bring you to the great heights, and drop you off if you neglect your spiritual identity. You are always looking for an opportunity to investigate the unknown, to use and show your mental abilities, to find the purpose and meaning of life. You want to grow wise and to understand people and things. You need privacy to replenish your energy. You have a unique way of thinking, intuitive, reflective, absorbing.

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