Amedeo
Amedeo is an Italian theophoric given name meaning "lover of God", "loves God", or more correctly "for the love of God" and cognate to the Latin name Amadeus, the Spanish Amadeo, the Catalan and Portuguese Amadeu and the French Amédée.
- Italian
Meaning & Origin of Amedeo
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Amedeo is an Italian theophoric given name meaning "lover of God", "loves God", or more correctly "for the love of God" and cognate to the Latin name Amadeus, the Spanish Amadeo, the Catalan and Portuguese Amadeu and the French Amédée.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Italian
The Story of Amedeo
Amedeo first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1909, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1917: 24 births, good for #1,437 nationwide. About 24% of every Amedeo on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Amedeo last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 667 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Amedeo
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About the name Amedeo
Amedeo is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1909 and has accumulated 667 births in the dataset. Amedeo's peak popularity came in 1917 when it ranked #1,437. Use the chart and map above to compare Amedeo's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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