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Amado

#1,169 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Amatus

Amado has been given to 4,769 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #1,169 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 176 recorded.

Babies named Amado, 2025

1 in 18,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amado: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Amatus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amado means

Amado is a form of Amatus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amatus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,769 boys were recorded with the name Amado between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 176 in 2025; its best national rank was #896 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,716 in 2020 to #1,169 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,809 in 2015 to #1,169 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 Amado?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,800
176 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,700
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,169
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,057 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amado 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,057 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amado. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amados were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amado was born before 1987 — so the typical Amado is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,756
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (869).

Is Amado 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
+81
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+547
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,640
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (176)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#896
1883

Spellings of Amado

Amado is not the most common spelling — Armando is, with 40.0% against Amado's 2.5%.

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 Amado is used

Across 2016–2025, Amado was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 10,197 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 6,250
  2. 2Texas1 in 6,250
  3. 3Arizona1 in 7,143
  4. 4Nevada1 in 11,111
  5. 5Washington1 in 14,286
  6. 6Illinois1 in 16,667
  7. 7Colorado1 in 25,000
  8. 8Florida1 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.

Amado around the world

Where Amado 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
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1945–2023
    #5,467
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Amado

People whose public names include Amado, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Amado in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Amado. Linked forms have their own page here.

AmadeoAmadorAmatus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Amado by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,169
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 547
Best rank ever
#896
1883
Peak year
2025
176 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,769
Count in 2025
176

Names similar to Amado

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

AmareAmaniAmarAmadorAmanAmaanAmauriAmarionAmaruAmadeoAmariAmauryAmandoAmadouAmareeAmaarAmadeusAmariiAmarisAmaraAmandaAmaziAmaisAmadi

Names with a curve like Amado

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Amado, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AurelioAugustinMarcellusHenriOzzieTheophilusLucioNileBarronCiroMurphyHolland

Sibling names for Amado

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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