American Family Name Origins:
D'Amato
Frequency: (2379)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: patronymic from the personal name Amato, from the Latin personal name Amatus, meaning ‘beloved’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 15%. Salvatore (15), Angelo (13), Antonio (9), Carmine (8), Pasquale (6), Luigi (5), Rocco (5), Sal (5), Gaetano (4), Vito (4), Francesco (3), Giuseppe (3).
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
