Amata
A handful of Polish women carry it, and no girl was born with it last year: most people here have never met one. It comes straight from Latin amare, to love, the feminine past participle for one who is loved.
Amata Pronunciation
Amata is pronounced ah-MAH-tah (/aˈmata/).
What Amata means
Where Amata comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Amata comes straight from Latin. There, amata is the feminine of amatus, the past participle of amare, to love. It means one who has been loved, beloved. The word holds no metaphor. A person with this name is named for the plain fact of being loved by someone.
The clearest bearer belongs to thirteenth-century Italy. Blessed Amata of Assisi was a niece of Saint Clare and one of her first followers at the Monastery of San Damiano. She entered around 1213 and stood beside Clare when the older woman died in 1253. The Poor Clares kept the name in use long after, and her feast falls on 20 February.
On a Polish class register today, Amata sits a little apart from the Annas and Aleksandras near it. The ending sounds familiar. The root does not. A child in her first Latin lesson will meet amo, amas, amat before she finds her own name inside them, beloved.
When Amata celebrates name day
Amata appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 5 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Amata
1 in 2254383 women in Poland is named Amata. 10 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15759 among female names.
Amata as a middle name
Amata is a first name for 10 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2697th, between Amalie (8) and Amrita (8).
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#2695 Alya8
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#2696 Amalie8
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#2697 Amata8
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#2698 Amrita8
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#2699 Anastacia8