Amparo

Where Amparo comes from

Amparo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1911
    First appearance
    #2,191 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1925
    Amparo Rivelles born
    Spanish actress
  3. 1928
    Peak, #845
    73 babies named Amparo — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,182.
  5. 1954
    Amparo Muñoz born
    Spanish actress and model, Miss Universe 1974 winner
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Amparo Rivelles · Spanish actress, 1925–2013
  • Amparo Muñoz · Spanish actress and model, Miss Universe 1974 winner, 1954–2011
  • Amparo Baró · Spanish actress, 1937–2015
  • Amparo Poch y Gascón · Spanish anarchist, pacifist, doctor, and activist, 1902–1968
  • Amparo Ochoa · Mexican singer, 1946–1994

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.