Amos
Meaning
“'load, burden' (Hebrew amas)”
The story
Amos comes from the Hebrew amas, "load, burden", and its bearer is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament, the author of the Book of Amos. The American record holds an uninterrupted published line running from the 1890s through the partial 2020s: about 1,020 boys in the 1890s, about 4,890 in the 1920s, between about 1,700 and 3,300 every decade from the 1930s through the 2000s, and then a turn upward a century in, about 3,240 in the 2010s and about 2,460 so far this decade. Brazil counts about 3,900, nearly all men, median age thirty-one. A burden in the meaning, a prophet in the byline, and a hundred and thirty years on the ledger without a single absent decade.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Amos peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
3,937 people · the #3,227 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 52,632 · median age 31
Among people named Amos living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 180 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Amos deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Amos truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Amos fits with your family’s names and surname.
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