Amadeus
Amadeus was given to 103 boys in 2025, #1,634 among boys’ names; 1,720 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Amadeus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amadeus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amadeus mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amadeus is “a male given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the senses “love” (amo) and “god” (deus).
From Latin Amadeus, from Latin amo (“love”) + deus (“god”).
/ˌɑməˈdeɪʊs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amadeus?
#1,634 among boys’ names, 2025
Amadeus rose from #2,086 in 2015 to #1,634 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 35.0 to 60.3 per million.
154 babies in 2024, the peak
Amadeus peaked in 2024, when 154 boys were given it, #1,275 among boys’ names. The 103 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 103 | #1,634 | 60.3 |
| 2024 | 154 | #1,275 | 89.4 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,682 | 59.0 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,096 | 40.7 |
| 2021 | 79 | #1,915 | 45.2 |
| 2020 | 87 | #1,758 | 50.4 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,043 | 39.6 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,064 | 38.0 |
| 2017 | 75 | #1,919 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,170 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,086 | 35.0 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,887 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 54 | #2,336 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,450 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,115 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,915 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,226 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,716 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,511 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 40 | #2,833 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,168 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,534 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,277 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,880 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,741 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,420 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,374 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,015 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,737 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,676 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,130 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,748 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,453 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,327 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,482 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,410 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,815 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,078 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,945 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,134 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,807 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amadeus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amadeus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amadeus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amadeus, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,720 Americans ever recorded as Amadeus. The median Amadeus alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 985 people named Amadeus (17 women and girls, 968 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,133 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 159 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 512 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Amadeus born?
The states with the most babies named Amadeus are California, Texas and Florida, with 90% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,013 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,071 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,011 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,138 | 0.4× |
Where Amadeus is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amadeus is most over-represented in California: since 1985 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amadeus with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amadeus
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Amadeus and names like it
- Compare Amadeus and EitanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmadeus peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amadeus since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Amadeus: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Amadeus.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amadeus alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.