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Amadeus

#1,634 in 2025Boys' name

Love + god

Amadeus has been given to 1,720 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #1,634 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 154 recorded.

Babies named Amadeus, 2025

1 in 32,200

Amadeus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amadeus: meaning, origin, and history

Love + god

Latin

What Amadeus means

Amadeus means “love + god”, associated with amo and deus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Amadeus, from Latin amo (“love”) + deus (“god”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Amadeus (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Amadeus is used in English, Faroese and Latin. Its origins include Latin.

Amadeus comes through Latin Amadeus and Latin amo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Amadeus is pronounced /ˌɑməˈdeɪʊs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,720 boys were recorded with the name Amadeus between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 154 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,275 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,758 in 2020 to #1,634 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,086 in 2015 to #1,634 in 2025.

How common is Amadeus?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,200
103 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,634
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amadeus sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amadeus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amadeuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amadeus was born before 2016 — so the typical Amadeus is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,720
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (595).

Is Amadeus rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−359
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+124
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+452
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.54×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.9%
Peak was 2024 (154)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,275
2024

Spellings of Amadeus

Amadeus is not the most common spelling — Amadeo is, with 27.9% against Amadeus's 24.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Amadeus is used

Across 2016–2025, Amadeus was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 20,597 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2Colorado1 in 14,286
  3. 3Texas1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arizona1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 25,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 25,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Amadeus around the world

Where Amadeus ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1988–2025
    #6,208
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Amadeus by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,634
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 124
Best rank ever
#1,275
2024
Peak year
2024
154 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,720
Count in 2025
103

Names similar to Amadeus

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Amadeus

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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