Meaning of the nameAmílton

Male
English origin
A-míl-ton

Amílton is a Brazilian masculine name, a variant of Hamílton, which comes from the English and Scottish surname Hamilton, taken from a place whose name means 'blunt hill'.

Meaning

“from the English place name Hamilton: hamel, 'blunt, flat-topped' (or 'crooked'), and dūne, 'hill'”

Source: Wiktionary: Hamilton · Behind the Name: Hamilton

People (2022): 34,344
Rank in Brazil: #746
Median age: 50 years
2010 Census: 42,018; people

Amílton in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Amílton, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (8,497 people).

96 women 34,248 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Amílton is most common

States with the highest share of people named Amílton in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Santa Catarina 0.032%
Bahia 0.030%
Paraná 0.029%
Tocantins 0.023%
Goiás 0.021%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	5,827	0.013%
Bahia	4,274	0.030%
Minas Gerais	4,030	0.020%
Paraná	3,294	0.029%
Rio de Janeiro	2,819	0.018%
Santa Catarina	2,415	0.032%
Goiás	1,487	0.021%
Pará	1,383	0.017%
Rio Grande do Sul	1,348	0.012%
Pernambuco	962	0.011%
Maranhão	782	0.012%
Mato Grosso	715	0.020%
Espírito Santo	677	0.018%
Ceará	600	0.007%
Mato Grosso do Sul	474	0.017%
Distrito Federal	429	0.015%
Paraíba	407	0.010%
Amazonas	371	0.009%
Tocantins	342	0.023%
Alagoas	303	0.010%
Rondônia	300	0.019%
Sergipe	299	0.014%
Piauí	280	0.009%
Rio Grande do Norte	246	0.007%
Amapá	135	0.018%
Roraima	84	0.013%
Acre	61	0.007%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Amílton

According to Wiktionary, Amílton is a variant of Hamílton, a borrowing of the English Hamilton; the spelling Hamilton, without the accent, is an unadapted borrowing. Hamilton is a Scottish surname taken from a place in Leicestershire, England, whose name comes from the Old English *Hameldūne, from hamel, 'blunt, flat-topped', and dūne, 'hill'. Behind the Name gives the same structure, but translates hamel as 'crooked, mutilated'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 34,344 people named Amilton, with a median age of 50.

Without the initial h and with an acute accent, it follows the pronunciation of Hamílton; it is the most common spelling in the group and, proportionally, appears most in Santa Catarina.

Other spellings of Amílton

Spelling	People (2022)
Amílton	34,344
Hamilton	20,617

Sources

Wiktionary: Hamilton · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Hamilton · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Amílton · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Wiktionary: Hamílton · en.wiktionary.org · origin

Questions about the name Amílton

What does the name Amílton mean?

Amílton means “from the English place name Hamilton: hamel, 'blunt, flat-topped' (or 'crooked'), and dūne, 'hill'”, according to Wiktionary and Behind the Name.

How many people are named Amílton in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 34,344 people with the first name Amílton, which ranks it number 746 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

Is Amílton a boy's or a girl's name?

Amílton is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 96 women and 34,248 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Amílton?

Amílton is a name of English origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Amílton most common?

Proportionally, in Santa Catarina: 0.032% of the state's population is named Amílton (2,415 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Amílton?

Hamilton. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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