Ambrosius
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Greek name 'immortal, divine'; name of a Church Father
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈæmbɹəsiɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ambrosius is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- DKDenmark
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek name 'immortal, divine'; name of a Church Father.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Ambrosius 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 German, Latinized form in -ius from Ambros-; NL/BE/LU counts 169/4/28.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, ) Ambros: in Deutschland seit dem Mittelalter vorkommender männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Plg. lenk. Ambrosius (SSNO I 32). Dar žr. Ambrdzas
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In German, from Greek ambrosios 'immortal, divine'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Latin, Ambrosial, divine, immortal.
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)
- Ambrosiusb. 339DERoman theologian and Bishop of Milan (c. 340–397)
- Ernst Ambrosiusb. 1866DEGerman cartographer (1866–1940)
- Heinrich Ambrosiusb. 1879DEGerman politician (1879-1968)
- Hermann Ambrosiusb. 1897DEGerman composer (1897-1983)
- Wilhelm Ambrosiusb. 1903DEGerman navy officer and world war II U-boat commander (1903-1955)
- Barbara Ambrosiusb. 1944DEGerman judge (1944–2023)
- Gerold Ambrosiusb. 1949DEGerman economic historian
- Florian Ambrosiusb. 1975DEGerman television presenter
- Stefan Ambrosiusb. 1976DEGerman tuba player
- Marsha Ambrosiusb. 1977GBEnglish singer-songwriter
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 557 | #39,486 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 552 | #42,328 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 516 | #40,019 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 164 | #12,573 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 139 | #3,918 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 71 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 21 | #86,266 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #109,055 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #35,046 |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Ambrosius mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek name 'immortal, divine'; name of a Church Father. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Ambrosius?
- In the etymology graph, Ambrose, Ambrosio and Ambroise are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ambrosius?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈæmbɹəsiɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ambrosius have the most bearers?
- Ambrosius is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ambrosiusThe 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, “Ambrosius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.