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Amadu

Boys' name

Form of Ahmad

Amadu has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2006, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Amadu, 2024

1 in 334,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amadu: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ahmad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amadu means

Amadu is a form of Ahmad.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Amadu is used in Western African.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Amadu is a form of Ahmad. Ahmad has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ahmad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 115 boys were recorded with the name Amadu between 1999 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2006; its best national rank was #6,471 in 2006.

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 Amadu?

Amadu had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amadu 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 2024 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amadu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amadus were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
115
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Amadu 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (12)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,471
2006

Spellings of Amadu

Amadu is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 32.5% against Amadu'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.

Amadu around the world

Where Amadu 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
    2004–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • France
    2009–2022
    #6,761
    in 2022

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

Amadu by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,471
2006
Peak year
2006
12 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
115
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amadu

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

AmairAmarrAmaroAmadiAmaelAmaisAmaziAmahriAmaraAmarioAmaviAmahdAmaiAmaarAmatoAmanteAmareonAmaadAmancioAmalAmarriAmayAmaruAmarie

Sibling names for Amadu

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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