MEANING & HISTORY
What does Ambrosio mean?
Ambrosio is a Spanish form of Latin Ambrosius, from Greek ambrosios, immortal or divine. The same Greek word family lies behind ambrosia, the food of the gods in classical tradition.
The personal name also has a Christian saint-name history. Its literal root is immortality, not a medical or supernatural claim about the person who bears it.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ʔamˈbɾosjo/Standard-Tagalog
- [ʔɐmˈbɾoː.ʃo]Standard-Tagalog
- /ʔamˈbɾosjo/no palatal assimilation
- [ʔɐmˈbɾos.jo]no palatal assimilation
Am · bros · io3 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Cebuano
- /ʔamˈbɾosjo/
- [ʔɐmˈbɾ̪os̪.jo]
Am · bro · sio3 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Ambrosio, from Latin Ambrosius, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrósios, “immortal, divine”).
a male given name from Spanish, feminine equivalent Ambrosia, equivalent to English Ambrose
Wiktionary: Ambrosio (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
CebuanoEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Ambrosio, from Latin Ambrosius, from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrósios, “immortal, divine”).
a male given name from Spanish, masculine equivalent Ambrosia, equivalent to English Ambrose
Wiktionary: Ambrosio (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Ambrosio
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Ambrosio Padilla
Filipino basketball player and senator (1910-1996)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista
author of the Declaration of Philippine Independence (1830-1903)
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
2
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
4
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista, Ambrosio Padilla
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Ambrosio in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Ambrosio
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Ambrosia♀Feminine Ambrosios family: immortal
- Amancio·Loving; Spanish form of Amantius
- Ambo♂Tagalog familiar form of Pablo
- Amboy♂Cebuano familiar form of Pablo
- Amos♂Load or burden
- Eufrasio·Masculine form in the Greek joy-name family
- Teodosio·God and giving in the Greek Theodosios formation
- Amadeo♂Love of God; form of Amadeus
What rhymes with Ambrosio?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Ambrosio further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q18325192 — Ambrosio (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18325192 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Ambrosio Padilla (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18325192 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Ambrosio (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Ambrosio (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary: Ambrosio (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.