Amadis

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Form of Amadeus

Amadis has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 2003. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Amadis, 2012

1 in 610,000

Amadis over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Amadis over time

In 2024, Amadis went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20032024

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.

Amadis: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Amadeus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amadis means

Amadis is a form of Amadeus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Amadis is used in Literature.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Amadis → Amadeus. The family’s meaning is “love + god”, recorded in English with the source elements amo and deus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amadeus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 girls were recorded with the name Amadis between 2003 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2008; its best national rank was #10,849 in 2008.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Amadis between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #9,951 in 2024.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Amadis?

Amadis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012: 1 in 610,000; 6 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only: 1 in 293,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 422,543 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Amadis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 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 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amadis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amadiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amadis was born before 2007 — so the typical Amadis is around 18 today.

Median birth year: 2007; About 18 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 79.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 59; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 79.7% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Amadis 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2008 (10)
Years since peak: 17; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,849; 2008

Spellings of Amadis

Amadis is not the most common spelling — Mavis is, with 16.2% against Amadis's 0.04%.

Mavis16.2%23,015
Amari15.0%21,288
Amalia11.6%16,478
Amani9.5%13,440
Damaris9.0%12,734
Amaris6.6%9,422
Anais6.5%9,213
Ardis4.5%6,386

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.

Amadis around the world

Where Amadis 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
1990–2014
#5,423
in 2014

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

Amadis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,849; 2008
Peak year: 2008; 10 that year
First recorded: 2003
Last recorded: 2012
All-time count: 59
Count in 2025: Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,951; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 7 that year
First recorded: 2024
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 7
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Amadis

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

Amarae Amaiia Amayla Amanah Amaani Amazyn Amadea Amazin Amariee Amarya Amanat Amavi Amaara Amaru Amariz Amanii Amalee Amayha Amarys Amaly Amairah Amandy Amaura Amahle

Sibling names for Amadis

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

For a sister

Jaylen Yamilet Dalilah Desire Jaidyn Kalia Rihanna Jakayla

For a brother

Kaeden Gavyn Tyshawn Marley Javion Baron Kale Seamus

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