How Many People Are Named Amadeus?
people named Amadeus are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 201,168 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,720 babies named Amadeus in Social Security records from 1985 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
154 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "love of God", derived from Latin amare "to love" and Deus "God". A famous bearer was the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), who was actually born Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart but preferred the Latin translation of his Greek middle name. This name was also assumed as a middle name by the German novelist E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), who took it in honour of Mozart.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Amadeus in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Amadeus alive today is about 12 years old, and 92% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 19 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Amadeus first appears in the records in 1985 and was given most often in 2024, to 154 babies. In 2025, 103 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1985 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Amadeus has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,275, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #1,634.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,634 |
| Best rank | #1,275 (2024) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,688 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Amadeus alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Amadeus were born in California than in any other state: about 274 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Amadeus was given 3.3 times as often in California and 2.7 times in Texas.
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