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Amante

Gender
Boy
Say it
ah-MAHN-teh
Origin
Spanish
US rank, 2025
#12,003 for boys

Amante is a boys' name of Spanish origin, meaning “lover”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).

What does Amante mean?

Spanish: Spanish and Italian word, from Latin amans

“lover”

Is Amante a girl's or a boy's name?

Amante is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Amante in the US?

Rank in 2025
#12,003among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 340,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Amante, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1994.

It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Amante than any year since 2019.

Half of all the boys named Amante in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 16 in 20222025
Amante in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#12,003
20249#8,307
202311#7,284
202216#5,629
202114#6,027
202010#7,497
20190–
20186#10,754
20177#9,691
20168#8,811
20157#9,562
20148#8,775
201311#7,021
201210#7,553
20110–
20107#9,686
20097#9,859
200811#7,182
200710#7,586
20069#7,992
20057#9,108
200414#5,487
20037#8,636
20026#9,385
20017#8,332
200013#5,290
19995#9,905
19987#7,553
199710#5,636
19960–
19950–
19949#5,862

Names like Amante

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Amante: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amante, updated 20 October 2026.