Entry № 539 · Italian origin

America America — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-MAIR-ih-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Industrious (America Ferrera; the continent)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Italian)

A name that means "industrious (america ferrera; the continent)".

America is the feminized form of Americus — the Latin form of Italian Amerigo from the Old Germanic amal (industrious, work) + ric (ruler). The continents were named after the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), who first proposed in his 1503 letters that the lands Columbus had reached were a new continent rather than the East Indies.

Industrious (America Ferrera; the continent) — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

America
Transliteration
America
Pronunciation
/ əˈmɛr.ɪ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where America stands.

America does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Americas before her.

Real people
America Ferrera
American actress and producer.
born 1984
Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine navigator (the continent's namesake).
1454 – 1512
In fiction
Betty Suarez
Ugly Betty.
2006

Names connected to America.

The number behind America.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of America reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.