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Amedeo vs America

American parents have registered 13,538 Americas since 1880, against 667 Amedeos. America is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amedeo against America, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amedeo America

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, America for 144 years and Amedeo for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Amedeo America
Total US births 66713,538
Most in one year 24719
Babies in 2025 under 5117
Estimated living today 25012,000
Median age today 3420
Peak year 19172005
Best rank 1,437th boys427th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,733rd
First recorded 19091880
Girls / boys 0 / 66713,522 / 16

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Amedeos alive today are over 34; half the Americas are over 20. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amedeo and America.