# Damato (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/damato/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Italian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,804 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,144 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 45,377 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.3% (6,521 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Italian D'Amato.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Damato in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Damato in the United States.

## People named Damato

- Cus D'Amato, American boxing trainer (1908–1985)
- Al D'Amato, American politician
- Lisa D'Amato, American musician, recording artist, and model

## Similar surnames

Dent, Deanda, Donato, Dinwiddie, Demuth, Dendy, Dennett, DeMott, DiMatteo, Dandy, Donati, Dant.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.