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Amadu

Amadu is a given name from Arabic. It is used in Bambara.

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Amadu comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Arabic محمد.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Amadu through the years

Babies since 1880
115
115 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2006
12 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0246820002025Highest share 20130.0
Amadu in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1999–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 10 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 432 as a first name in 2020; 177 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Amadu’s family of names

In Italian usage, Amadu as a surname has a diminutive in Madeddu. Amadu has a conventional equivalent in the Kurdish form EHMED.

Walk Amadu’s family in the name graph

AmaduMadedduAhmadEhmedأحمد

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Amadu

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