MEANING & HISTORY
What does Amadeo mean?
Amadeo is a Spanish form and Italian variant of Amadeus. The Latin formation combines a love element from amare with Deus, God, conventionally interpreted as love of God.
It belongs to a recognizable tradition of religious names rather than a newly assembled modern phrase. Mozart is a famous bearer of Amadeus, but his chosen Latin name is an association of the wider family, not the origin of the words themselves.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
SpanishEtymology & source
a male given name, equivalent to English Amadeus
Wiktionary: Amadeo (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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People with the name Amadeo
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Amadeo R. Perez, Jr.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Amadeo Gregorio E. Perez IV
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Amadeo R. Perez, Jr., Amadeo Gregorio E. Perez IV
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Amadeo in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Amadeo
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Amado♂Beloved
- Amada♀Beloved
- Amadeus♂Love of God
- Amador♂Lover; one who loves
- Amando♂Worthy of love; lovable
- Tadeo♂Spanish form of Thaddeus
- Ama♀Born on Saturday in the Akan day-name tradition
- Amable·Lovable, in the Amabilis family
What rhymes with Amadeo?
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Explore Amadeo further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q18285162 — Amadeo (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Amadeo R. Perez, Jr. (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18285162 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Amadeo Gregorio E. Perez IV (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18285162 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Amadeo (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Amadeo (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — Amadeo (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Amadeus (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.