Amerigo

Where Amerigo comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Amerigo.

  • Vowel-ended
Amerigo through the years
  1. 1454
    Amerigo Vespucci born
    Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
  2. 1894
    Amerigo Dumini born
    Italian assassin
  3. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,589 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1911
    Peak, #925
    13 babies named Amerigo, its best rank.
  5. 1932
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #3,776.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Amerigo Vespucci · Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer, 1454–1512
  • Amerigo Dumini · Italian assassin, 1894–1967
  • Amerigo Severini · Italian cyclist, 1931–2020
  • Amerigo Bartoli · Italian painter and caricaturist, 1890–1971
  • Amerigo Cacioni · Italian bicycle racer, 1908–2005

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.