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Amadou

#3,036 in 2025Boys' name

Praiseworthy; benign, through أَحْمَدُ

Amadou has been given to 1,217 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #3,036 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Amadou, 2025

1 in 82,900

Amadou over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amadou: meaning, origin, and history

Praiseworthy; benign, through أَحْمَدُ

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amadou means

Amadou belongs to the name family reached through Amadou → أَحْمَدُ. Its meaning is “praiseworthy; benign”.

Origin, language, and formation

Amadou is used in French.

Amadou comes through Arabic أَحْمَدُ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include أَحْمَدُ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Amadou is pronounced /a.ma.du/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,217 boys were recorded with the name Amadou between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,220 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,138 in 2020 to #3,036 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,301 in 2015 to #3,036 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Amadou?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 42,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,036
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amadou 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amadou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amadous were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amadou was born before 2011 — so the typical Amadou is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (442).

Is Amadou 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
−161
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+102
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−735
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.8%
Peak was 2008 (59)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,220
2000

Spellings of Amadou

Amadou is not the most common spelling — Amado is, with 27.7% against Amadou's 7.1%.

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 Amadou is used

Across 1910–2025, Amadou was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 70,152 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2Maryland1 in 50,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Amadou has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amadou around the world

Where Amadou 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
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1956–2025
    #333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

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.

Amadou by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,036
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 102
Best rank ever
#2,220
2000
Peak year
2008
59 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,217
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Amadou

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

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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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