Ambar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Any of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ambar/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ambar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 2.3K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Any of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ambar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #516 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 4K | Ambar | 51 |
| EC Ecuador | #770 | 7,355 | 1 in 2.3K | 7.4K | Ambar | 26 |
| US United States | — | 3,363 | 1 in 99K | 3.2K | Ambar | 228 |
| CL Chile | #655 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 322 | Ambar | 54 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #220 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Ambar | 46 |
| UY Uruguay | #298 | 2,370 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.4K | Ambar | 14 |
| PY Paraguay | #606 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Ambar | 16 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names; 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)
Ambar 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 Arabic, (‘anbar) perfume, ambergris
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
ambergris
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
gett ambergris, night, saffron
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
sky, horizon
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In Kurdish, alternative form of embar (“storehouse”)
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)
- Ámbar Pastb. 1949MXMexican author
- Ambar Martinezb. 1985USAmerican actress
- Ambar Lucidb. 2001USmusical artist
- Ámbar Figueroab. 2007CLChilean footballer
- Ambar de la HorraESSpanish actress
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 57 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 7.4K | #266 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 4K | #26 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,184 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.3K | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 721 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 721 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 140 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 130 | #5,184 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 108 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 44 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 32 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Ambar a male or female name?
- Ambar 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.
- How do you pronounce Ambar?
- A machine transcription gives /ambar/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Ambar mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ambar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Ambar in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ambar.
- Where is Ambar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ambar is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ambar?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 7,355 people named Ambar in 2024, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ambar compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Ambar is the 516th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ambar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ambarThe 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, “Ambar” — the 516th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.