Amadeo
Meaning
love of God (Spanish form of Amadeus); borne by Amadeo I, the Italian-born king of Spain
The story
Amadeo is the Spanish form of Amadeus, Latin for love of God, built from amo, to love, and Deus. Behind the Name notes it also survives as an Italian variant beside the standard Italian Amedeo, and Portuguese carries its own form, Amadeu. The name's most famous chapter belongs to music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was actually born Wolfgang Theophilus and preferred the Latin translation of his Greek middle name. Its most famous crown belongs to Spain: Amadeo I, an Italian prince of the House of Savoy, reigned as king in Madrid from 1870 to 1873, his name spelled Amedeo at home and Amadeo on the throne. In the United States the name has stayed below the reporting line of the Social Security record, which never shows five in a single year, making Amadeo one of the rare classics an American child can still have almost alone. Even Brazil's census counts only 319 residents, with a median age of 60. The love in it needs no translation.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Amadeo does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
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Popularity in Brazil
319 people · the #18,217 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 60
Among people named Amadeo living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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