Amadou
Amadou was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,036 among boys’ names; 1,217 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Amadou and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amadou by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amadou mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Amadou is “a male given name, widely used in Islamic West Africa”
A French spelling of a name ultimately derived from Arabic أَحْمَدُ (ʔaḥmadu), i.e. Ahmad. Native spellings include Wolof and Pulaar Aamadu etc.
/a.ma.du/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amadou?
#3,036 among boys’ names, 2025
Amadou fell from #2,301 in 2015 to #3,036 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 29.7 to 23.4 per million.
59 babies in 2008, the peak
Amadou peaked in 2008, when 59 boys were given it, #2,236 among boys’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,036 | 23.4 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,875 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,119 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,920 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,914 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,138 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,696 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,530 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,892 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,111 | 19.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #2,301 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 41 | #2,847 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,666 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,677 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,752 | 22.6 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,733 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,560 | 24.7 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,236 | 28.9 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,446 | 25.1 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,698 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,800 | 19.0 |
| 2004 | 50 | #2,280 | 25.2 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,426 | 21.8 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,684 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,061 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,220 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,030 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,649 | 16.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,883 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,516 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,431 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,462 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,775 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,453 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amadou a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amadou has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amadou: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amadou, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,217 Americans ever recorded as Amadou. The median Amadou alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,275 people named Amadou (17 women and girls, 2,258 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 987 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 40 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 639 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 523 |
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 Amadou born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 13 | #678 | 2.3× |
| New York | 9 | #1,208 | 6.2× |
Where Amadou is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amadou is most over-represented in New York: since 1992 it was given 6.2 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 Amadou with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,690 babies since 1880, Amadou is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 316 babies (13%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amadou
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 Amadou and names like it
- Compare Amadou and AmadoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmadou peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amadou since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Amadou: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Amadou.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amadou alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.