The Amigo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 316 people carried this name — #63,218 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted. That is up 30% from 244 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Amigo surname
From amigo (“friend”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Amigo» (Spanish), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,278 people named Amigo live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 122 people named Amigo.
32 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 24 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
71 people named Amigo live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
23 people named Amigo is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Amigo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Martín Amigo 1650– · painter -
Karoline Lehrhaupt 1863–1940
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Peter Amigo 1864–1949 · Catholic priest
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Aurora Arnaiz 1913–2009 · writer
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Joseph Amigo 1923–2002 · sport cyclist
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Carlos Amigo Vallejo 1934–2022 · archbishop
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Amigo.
When the index is not enough
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