Amboy

loc · Latin script

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

Amboy is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: A number of places in the United States:.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AmboyLatin(measured from records)
อำบอยThai(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)

A number of places in the United States:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Amboy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Amboy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—111—1
ES Spain—7——
PL Poland—2——
TH Thailand—#814,328—3

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 — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Amboy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given name Pablo

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Amboy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020111#148,665
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010110#149,395
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#304,240
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Amboy mean, and where does it come from?
A number of places in the United States: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Amboy have the most bearers?
Amboy is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Amboy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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