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Amadi

#7,699 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Amadi has been given to 454 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #7,699 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% boys, 48% girls all-time.

Babies named Amadi, 2025

1 in 332,000

Amadi over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Amadi over time

In 2025, Amadi went to 38% girls and 62% boys.

19772025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Amadi: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amadi means

Amadi has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Amadi

One of the source’s documented entries for Amadi records a meaning of freeborn man.

One of the source’s documented entries for Amadi records a proposed meaning of seemed destined to die at birth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 234 boys were recorded with the name Amadi between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2022; its best national rank was #4,306 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,612 in 2020 to #7,699 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,063 in 2015 to #7,699 in 2025.

In the United States, 220 girls were recorded with the name Amadi between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1995; its best national rank was #7,065 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,234 in 2020 to #13,297 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,613 in 2015 to #13,297 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Amadi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,699
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amadi 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amadi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amadis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amadi was born before 2015 — so the typical Amadi is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
234
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Amadi 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
−1,786
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,913
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+364
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2022 (24)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,306
2022

Spellings of Amadi

Amadi is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 16.7% against Amadi's 0.12%.

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 Amadi is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Amadi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Amadi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amadi around the world

Where Amadi 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.

  • France
    1983–2022
    #5,902
    in 2022

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Amadi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,699
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,913
Best rank ever
#4,306
2022
Peak year
2022
24 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
234
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,297
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,937
Best rank ever
#7,065
1995
Peak year
1995
12 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
220
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Amadi

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

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Sibling names for Amadi

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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