America

Girl name

America has been given to 13,538 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It peaked in 2005.

Meaning & origin /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/

Learned borrowing from New Latin America, feminine Latinized form of the Italian first name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). Amerigo is an Italian name derived from a Germanic language and is etymologically related to Henry and Emmerich. The earliest known use of America for the (South) American continent is on a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller; see Naming of the Americas for more. Although this is the most widely accepted derivation, it has also been suggested that it could originate from the name of the Amerrisque mountains in Nicaragua (from Mayan), and another disputed t

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.