Amadu

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/amaduː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Amadu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 770K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 351K
  • DKDenmark1 in 534K

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.

United States (measured from records)

432 people, 2020

Sources
137 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Amadu 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.

Where Amadu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4321 in 770K432Amadu137
ES Spain—901 in 556K90Amadu25
BR Brazil—221 in 9.6M22—2
NL Netherlands—161 in 1.1M16Amadu10
DK Denmark—111 in 534K11——
FI Finland—71 in 796K35——
IS Iceland—11 in 351K1——
GH Ghana#199———Amadu40

432 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Amadu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Amadú, Amadù

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, United States

    Also written Amadú

  • Amharic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, United States

    Also written አመዱ

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Seku Amadu II, b. 1815Seku Amadu III, b. 1830Amadu Wurie, b. 1898Amadu Seidu,, b. 1954Amadu Yusufu, b. 1958Amadu Ali, b. 1988

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)

InformalHi Amadu,

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 36 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Amadu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020177#107,024
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010110#149,395
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—63#38,112
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—63#37,783
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—22#41,277
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Amadu?
In the etymology graph, Ahmet, Ahmed and Hamit are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Amadu?
A machine transcription gives /amaduː/ (IPA) for English.
Is Amadu a male or female name?
Amadu 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.
In which country does Amadu have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 432 people named Amadu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amadu.
Where is Amadu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amadu is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Amadu?
In the United States, the national register counted 432 people named Amadu in 2020, about 1 in 770 thousand residents.
How common is Amadu compared with other names?
In Ghana, Amadu is the 199th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.

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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, “Amadu” — the 199th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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