Amber
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim: 'amber, brownish-yellow' or 'jewel'; widely used in African jewelry and popular with Somali women
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æmbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amber is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.7K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amber itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #585 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 602 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
322,911 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Muslim: 'amber, brownish-yellow' or 'jewel'; widely used in African jewelry and popular with Somali women.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amber 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #235 | 322,911 | 1 in 1K | 322K | Amber | 602 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Amber | 84 |
| GB United Kingdom | #376 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 48 | Amber | 285 |
| CA Canada | #309 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 29 | Amber | 266 |
| AU Australia | #302 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 76 | Amber | 241 |
| NZ New Zealand | #257 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 38 | Amber | 135 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,370as Ambar | 1 in 1.4K | 2.4K | — | — |
322,911 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Amber is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Arabic: “precious ornament”; Gaelic meaning is not given in the text.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
From the vocabulary word for the gemstone amber, a word derived via Old French and Latin from Arabic ambar. This was first used as a given name at the end of the roth century, but has become particularly popular in the past couple of decades. In part it owes its popularity to Kathleen Winsor’s novel Forever Amber (1944).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, ruined city, India
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, The name of a semi-precious stone
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amber Lynnb. 1964USpornographic performer (b. 1964)
- Amber Smithb. 1971USAmerican actress and model
- Amber Vallettab. 1974USAmerican model and actress
- Tiffani Thiessenb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1974)
- Amber Tamblynb. 1983USAmerican actress and writer
- Amber Rose Levonchuckb. 1983USAmerican model and television personality
- Amber Heardb. 1986USAmerican actress
- Amber Stevens Westb. 1986USAmerican actress and model
- Amber Rose Revahb. 1986GBBritish actress
- Amber Rileyb. 1986USAmerican actress and singer
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)
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 93 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 322K | #159 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 633 | #159 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 576 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 137 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2011 | 76 | #100 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2022 | 66 | — |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2016 | 50 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 48 | #90 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 38 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 29 | #131 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2024 | 17 | #88 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2024 | 17 | #88 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Amber a male or female name?
- Amber is a female 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 Amber have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 323 thousand people named Amber, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amber.
- Where is Amber most common?
- Amber is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- What does the name Amber mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim: 'amber, brownish-yellow' or 'jewel'; widely used in African jewelry and popular with Somali women. Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Amber?
- In the etymology graph, Ambre, Amberly and Ambra are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Amber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 322,911 people named Amber in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Amber compared with other names?
- In the United States, Amber is the 235th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Amber?
- A machine transcription gives /æmbə/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Amber?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amberThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Amber” — the 235th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.