Ambros
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ambros is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Ambrose; from Greek ambrosios, 'immortal'.
- ESSpain1 in 60K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 406K
- MDMoldova≈1 in 23K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Ambrose; from Greek ambrosios, 'immortal'
Sources 1
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Where in the world(measured from records)
Ambros 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Ambros | 6 |
| ES Spain | 836 | 1 in 60K | 836 | Ambros | 71 |
| PH Philippines | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Ambros | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 522 | 1 in 406K | 522 | Ambros | 51 |
| US United States | 363 | 1 in 916K | 363 | Ambros | 46 |
| AT Austria | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 33 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 208 | 1 in 51K | 209 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Ambros is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma reduzida e truncada de Ambrosio/Ambroso
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Ambrogi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Russian, var of Ambrosii.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- August Wilhelm Ambrosb. 1816CZCzech music reviewer, composer and musicologist (1816–1876)
- Julius Ambrosb. 1855CZCzech attorney and writer (1855–1925)
- Otto Ambrosb. 1901DEGerman chemist (1901-1990)
- Paul Ambrosb. 1933DEGerman ice hockey player (1933–2015)
- Wolfgang Ambrosb. 1952ATAustrian singer-songwriter
- Victor Ambrosb. 1953USAmerican developmental biologist
- Harald Ambrosb. 1980ATAustrian equestrian
- Janek Ambrosb. 1988USAmerican film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1988)
- Vladimir Ambrosb. 1993MDMoldovan association football player
- Lukáš Ambrosb. 2004CZCzech association football player
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 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 836 | #5,190 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 836 | #5,187 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 522 | #16,425 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 363 | #56,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 332 | #64,670 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 260 | #70,273 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 209 | #2,296 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 209 | #5,480 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 208 | #8,095 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Ambros mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Ambrose; from Greek ambrosios, 'immortal' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Ambros have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Ambros in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ambros.
- How common is the name Ambros?
- In Spain, the national register counted 836 people named Ambros, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ambrosThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ambros”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.