Ambra

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ambra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: amber (fossil resin).

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 2K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 165K
  • MDMoldova1 in 224K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Albania (measured from records)

1,514 people

Sources
134 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

amber (fossil resin)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ambra 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.

Where Ambra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania—1,5141 in 2K1.5K——
US United States—8311 in 400K824Ambra73
ES Spain—1501 in 333K150Ambra26
SE Sweden—621 in 165K62Ambra8
NL Netherlands—411 in 421K41Ambra12
MD Moldova—151 in 224K15——
SI Slovenia—71 in 300K7—1
IT Italy#809——1.3KAmbra134

1,514 people counted by INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); e-services.md — living population register; SURS — resident population given names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ambra is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States

    Also written Ămbŕă

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ambra 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 Italian, do árabe ‘anbar; matronímico ou habitante de localidades chamadas Ambra/Ambria

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In German, weibl. Vom. italienischer Herkunft (italien. ambra »Bernstein«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Brillante

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In French, third-person singular past historic of ambrer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, ambergris (substance in perfumes)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

19401960198020002020Ambra Danon, b. 1950Ambra Polidori, b. 1954Ambra Senatore, b. 1976Ambra Angiolini, b. 1977Ambra Medda, b. 1982Ambra Lo Faro, b. 1991Ambra Gutierrez, b. 1992Ambra Vallo, b. 2000Ambra Sabatini, b. 2002

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 64 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Ambra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—1.5K#307
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20241.3K#22
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020824#14,230
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—150#11,348
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—128#5,722
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—62#11,793
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—41#9,527
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202037—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—36#14,218
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—15#2,320
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20257#3,203
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207#14,230

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • 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

How common is the name Ambra?
In Albania, the national register counted 1,514 people named Ambra, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
How common is Ambra compared with other names?
In Italy, Ambra is the 809th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What does the name Ambra mean, and where does it come from?
amber (fossil resin) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ambra a male or female name?
Ambra 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.
What are other forms of the name Ambra?
In the etymology graph, Amber, Ambre and Amberly are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ambra have the most bearers?
In Albania, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Ambra, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ambra most common?
Ambra is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.

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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, “Ambra” — the 809th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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