Details for the forename Amadeus

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Amadeus (male)


Variants:	Amadeo (M) Amedeo (M) Gottlieb (M) Theophilus (M)
Feminine form:	Amedée (F)

Source(s):	The Oxford Names Companion, OUP Private research.
Notes:	Latinised name from the Greek, meaning "God's love". Theophilus [from theos + philos, also "God's love"] was recorded as the baptismal second name of Wolfgang Mozart rather than Gottlieb, the German equivalent. However he preferred to use the fully Latin version, Amadeus.