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Amadeo

boy name
Origin
Spanish
Syllables
4
Peak era
2020s
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

love of God (Spanish form of Amadeus); borne by Amadeo I, the Italian-born king of Spain

The story

Amadeo has crossed the border between Italian and Spanish in more than one way. A Spanish form of Amadeus and an Italian variant, it is conventionally understood as "love of God," from Latin words for love and God. Its royal history belongs to the Italian-born Amadeo of Savoy, who ruled Spain before abdicating in 1873. The First Republic followed his departure. Across the Atlantic, Amadeo Peter Giannini carried the Italian form into a very different public role. Born in California to Italian immigrants, he sold produce before becoming a banker. After San Francisco's earthquake in 1906, he rescued his bank's gold and silver, set up on a North Beach wharf and made loans on a handshake. The shared name connects a European throne and an improvised American bank, while the wharf leaves us with a concrete picture of a city beginning to recover.

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How popular is Amadeo around the world?

In the United States, Amadeo is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Argentina, 1,942 newborns were given the name Amadeo in 2024.

Amadeo is on the official records of the United States, Argentina, Spain, Mexico City, Montevideo, Chile, France, Canada, England and Wales and Brazil.

United States

on record

In the United States, Amadeo is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.

1890speak 2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Amadeo peaked in the 2020s.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Argentina

1 in 340

In Argentina, 1,942 newborns were given the name Amadeo in 2024.

2012peak 2024

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Spain

1 in 12,000

In Spain, 3,683 residents are named Amadeo, the 528th most common name among men, with a mean age of 62.7 years.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Mexico City City

1 in 24,000

In Mexico City, there were 5 registrations of Amadeo in 2022.

2000peak 20152022

share of that year’s registrations in the city

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Montevideo City

1 in 25,000 · 2011

In Montevideo, 1 boy named Amadeo was born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Chile

1 in 30,000

In Chile, 6 boys were registered as Amadeo in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.

peak 19212021

share of that year’s name registrations

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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France

1 in 64,000

In France, about 10 boys named Amadeo were born in 2025, ranked 3,042nd among boys that year.

1920peak 2009

share of that year’s births on record

Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)

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Canada

1 in 73,000

In Canada, 5 boys named Amadeo were born in 2024, ranked 3,231st among boys that year.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.

First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)

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England and Wales

1 in 120,000

In England and Wales, 5 boys named Amadeo were born in 2025, ranked 3,684th among boys that year.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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Brazil

1 in 500,000

At the 2022 census, 319 people in Brazil were named Amadeo, ranked 18,217th, with a median age of 60.
Among people named Amadeo living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.

1930speak 1960s1990s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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South Australia

last on record 2007

Amadeo is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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Not on the record in Puerto Rico, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

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