America
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from America; used especially for American Jews
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
America is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 7.4K
- USUnited States1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
14,054 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Àmerica in VE Venezuela.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from America; used especially for American Jews.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against America, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
America counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 14,054 | 1 in 24K | 14K | America | 293 |
| VE Venezuela | 7,934 | 1 in 3.6K | 7.9K | Àmerica | 43 |
| AR Argentina | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 23 | America | 47 |
| PE Peru | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | America | 45 |
| EC Ecuador | 4,616 | 1 in 3.7K | 4.6K | America | 27 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | America | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | 596 | 1 in 5.7K | 596 | — | 12 |
14,054 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
America is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Western Hemisphere, esp. US
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from the place name America
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Welsh, America, the Americas (a supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- María América Gonzálezb. 1948ARArgentine politician
- Tom Americab. 1949NLDutch composer and guitarist
- America Meredithb. 1972USSwedish-Cherokee painter (born 1972)
- America Vera Zavalab. 1976SESwedish writer
- America Olivob. 1978USAmerican actress and singer
- America Martinb. 1980USAmerican artist
- America Ferrerab. 1984USAmerican actress (born 1984)
- America Youngb. 1984USAmerican actress
- Esperanza Americab. 1986USAmerican actress
- America TangUSAmerican entrepreneur, singer, and philanthropist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,973 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 7.9K | #252 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 4.6K | #374 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 596 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 594 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 117 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 106 | #1,973 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2022 | 11 | #2,227 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1932 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 4 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 4 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name America mean, and where does it come from?
- from America; used especially for American Jews. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does America have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named America, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled america.
- Where is America most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, America is densest in Venezuela — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name America?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,054 people named America in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about America?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/americaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “America”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.