Amadeus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin: ‘love of God’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amadews/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amadeus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 338K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 4.2K
- FIFinland1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,286 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin: ‘love of God’
Sources 1
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Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Amadeus is read(measured from records)
Amadeus is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amadeus in Portuguese.
- English18%
Latin: ‘love of God’
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- Spanish17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amadeus in Spanish.
- German13%
aus lateinischen Bestandteilen ge bildeter männl. Vom. mit der Bedeutung: »Hebe Gott!«, d. i. »GottHeb« (lat. amä »liebe!« zu amäre »Heben« + deus »Gott«). Das
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amadeus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 4,286 | 1 in 49K | 5.8K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 2,401 | 1 in 4.2K | 2.4K | Amadeus | 33 |
| US United States | 985 | 1 in 338K | 968 | Amadeus | 152 |
| FI Finland | 361 | 1 in 15K | 399 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 185 | 1 in 93K | 185 | Amadeus | 10 |
| AL Albania | 26 | 1 in 118K | 26 | — | — |
4,286 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amadeus is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Latin 'love God'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Original Latin form of AMEDEO , famous chiefly as the second name of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91), for whom it was a Latin version of GOTTLIEB . It is still occasionally bestowed by music-loving parents in his honour.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amadeus II, Count of Savoyb. 1046Count of Maurienne
- Amadeus IV, Count of Savoyb. 1197FRCount of Savoy 1233–1253
- Amadeus Vb. 1249FRCount of Savoy (1285–1323)
- Amédée VI de Savoieb. 1334FRnot in their usual nameCount of Savoy 1343-1383
- Amadeus VII, Count of Savoyb. 1360FRCount of Savoy 1383-1391
- Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoyb. 1435FRDuke of Savoy and Blessed
- E. T. A. Hoffmannb. 1776DEnot in their usual nameGerman Romantic author (1776–1822)
- Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbomb. 1790SESwedish poet (1790–1855)
- Amadeus III, Count of SavoyITCount of Savoy from 1103 to 1148
- Amadeus I, Count of Savoyearly count of the House of Savoy
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.8K | #3,051 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 5.7K | #1,098 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.3K | #3,055 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.4K | #950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 968 | #12,583 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 854 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 399 | #1,219 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 361 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 185 | #3,035 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 103 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 35 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Amadeus?
- In the etymology graph, Amadeo, Amedeo and Amédée are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Amadeus mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin: ‘love of God’ Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Amadeus?
- A machine transcription gives /amadews/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Amadeus a male or female name?
- Amadeus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Amadeus?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,286 people named Amadeus in 2022, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- In which country does Amadeus have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Amadeus, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Amadeus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amadeus is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 4.2 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Amadeus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amadeusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amadeus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.