Amadu
Amadu was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 115 Americans have been recorded with it between 1999 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amadu by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amadu?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,794, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2006, the peak
Amadu peaked in 2006, when 12 boys were given it, #6,471 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #7,794 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,446 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,723 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,848 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,720 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,821 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,619 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,520 | 5.3 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,057 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,348 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 12 | #6,471 | 5.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,425 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,620 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,287 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,904 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amadu a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amadu has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amadu: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amadu, and how old are they?
An estimated 114 Americans named Amadu and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 432 people named Amadu (0 women and girls, 432 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 99 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.4 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,690 babies since 1880, Amadu is the sixth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 316 babies recorded by SSA was a Amadu (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Amadu
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 Amadu and names like it
- Compare Amadu and AmadoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmadu peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Amadu.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amadu alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.