Amadeus

#1,634 for boys in 2025, 103 births

Peak · boys
2024 · 154 births
Debut · boys
11 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,720
since 1985

Amadeus over time

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Rank among boys' names. Amadeus has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201998boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#1,634103
2024#1,275154
2023#1,681101
2022#2,09471
2021#1,91579
2020#1,75887
2019#2,04271
2018#2,06569
2017#1,91875
2016#2,16763
2015#2,08667
2014#2,88540
2013#2,33654
2012#2,44851
2011#3,11436
2010#2,91440
2009#3,22335
2008#2,71745
2007#3,51130
2006#2,83240
2005#3,17232
2004#3,53426
2003#3,28028
2002#2,88232
2001#2,74234
2000#3,42324
1999#3,37623
1998#3,01726
1997#3,73818
1996#3,67818
1995#5,12411
1994#3,75117
1993#4,44713
1992#4,32713
1991#4,47612
1990#4,40712
1989#4,81110
1988#3,07917
1987#2,94217
1986#3,13115
1985#3,80511
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five boys were named Amadeus! It came in at #3,805, and was given to 11 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1989–1993, when fewer than 14 boys a year got the name.

See more about Amadeus
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 359 spots since 2024 (#1,275#1,634)
  • 124 spots since 2020 (#1,758#1,634)
  • 452 spots since 2015 (#2,086#1,634)
Rise & fade · boys
39 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 2024 at #1,275 (154 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,188
  • Highest: 1 in 11,188 boys born in 2024 were named Amadeus (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 16,583 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 34.6% of all boys named Amadeus (595) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s70#2,942 (1987)#3,554
1990s163#3,017 (1998)#4,034
2000s326#2,717 (2008)#3,132
2010s566#1,918 (2017)#2,398
2020s595#1,275 (2024)#1,726

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Amadeus in 1998

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#3,017
26 births · 1 in 73,514 boys

Top boys' names in 1998

  1. #1Michael36,618
  2. #2Jacob36,031
  3. #3Matthew31,146
  4. #4Joshua28,095
  5. #5Christopher27,007
  6. #6Nicholas26,632
  7. #7Brandon23,832
  8. #8Tyler23,712
  9. #9Andrew23,664
  10. #10Austin23,478
  11. #3,017Amadeus26
More about 1998

boys

1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 73,514 of them was named Amadeus, which outranked 73.3% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amadeus
  1. #2,926Val27
  2. #2,926Wesly27
  3. #2,926Yitzchak27
  4. #3,017Amadeus26
  5. #3,017Aj26
  6. #3,017Anakin26
  7. #3,017Anil26
  8. #3,092Aamir25
  9. #3,092Aarion25
  10. #3,092Abran25

Tied with 74 names at #3,017; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. 1,736Tyrese#2,347#611
  2. 805Zion#1,499#694
  3. 785Mekhi#1,706#921
  4. 743Tyriq#1,519#776
  5. 741Tavian#1,599#858
Fallers
  1. 429Coty#918#1,347
  2. 367Anfernee#838#1,205
  3. 326Jessy#962#1,288
  4. 295Mickey#966#1,261
  5. 280Mikal#1,000#1,280

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1998