# Amédée (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/amedee/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 70 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 70 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 5 | 1,146 |
| 1914 | 6 | 2,934 |
| 1916 | 8 | 2,934 |
| 1917 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 1919 | 5 | 4,179 |
| 1922 | 6 | 3,885 |
| 1923 | 8 | 3,189 |
| 1924 | 5 | 4,369 |
| 1925 | 7 | 3,426 |
| 1926 | 5 | 4,224 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,308 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,158 |

## People named Amédée

- Amédée Ozenfant, French painter (1886-1966)
- Amédée Courbet, French admiral (1827–1885)
- Amédée Louis Michel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, French entomologist (1770-1845)
- Amédée-François Frézier, French scientist, spy and explorer (1682-1773)
- Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez, French astronomer, admiral and scientific collector (1821 – 1892)
- Amédée Guillemin, French science writer and journalist (1826–1893)
- Amédée Borrel, French biologist (1867–1936)
- Amédée de Noé, caricaturist (1819-1879)
- Amédée Thierry, French historian (1797-1873)
- Amédée Mannheim, French mathematician and artillerist (1831–1906)
- Amédée Méreaux, French musicologist, pianist, and composer
- Amédée-François Lamy, French military officer (1858-1900)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.