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Amba

Girls' name

Counterpart of Kwami

Amba has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Amba, 2011

1 in 732,000

Amba over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amba: meaning, origin, and history

Counterpart of Kwami

Sanskrit and Akan

What Amba means

Amba is a counterpart of Kwami.

Origin, language, and formation

Amba is used in English and Sranan Tongo. Its origins include Sanskrit and Akan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kwami.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sranan Tongo, Amba is pronounced /amba/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Amba between 1993 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1993; its best national rank was #13,530 in 1993.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Amba?

Amba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amba sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ambas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amba was born before 1993 — so the typical Amba is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Amba rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (5)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,530
1993

Spellings of Amba

Amba is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 19.4% against Amba's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Amba around the world

Where Amba ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1989–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Amba by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#13,530
1993
Peak year
1993
5 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amba

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Amba

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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