Ambers

Boys' name

Immortal, divine, through Ambrose

Ambers has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1929, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Ambers, 1942

1 in 546,000

Ambers over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ambers: meaning, origin, and history

Immortal, divine, through Ambrose

Ancient Greek

What Ambers means

Ambers belongs to the name family reached through Ambers → Ambrose. Its meaning is “immortal, divine”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ambers is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ambrose.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 113 boys were recorded with the name Ambers between 1881 and 1942. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1929; its best national rank was #654 in 1881.

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.

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How common is Ambers?

Ambers had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1942, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1942: 1 in 546,000; 5 of 2,731,825 births
Among boys only: 1 in 276,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1942: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 378,713 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ambers sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1942 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 378,713 children born in 1942 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ambers. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amberss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ambers was born before 1922 — so the typical Ambers is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 69.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Ambers 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: —; 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 1929 (10)
Years since peak: 96; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #654; 1881

Spellings of Ambers

Ambers is not the most common spelling — Albert is, with 95.1% against Ambers's 0.02%.

Albert95.1%491,861
Anders1.6%8,026
Ameer1.3%6,596
Lambert0.68%3,515
Ames0.36%1,855
Amer0.28%1,438
Amere0.21%1,110
Amber0.19%978

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.

Ambers by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #654; 1881
Peak year: 1929; 10 that year
First recorded: 1881
Last recorded: 1942
All-time count: 113
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ambers

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

Ambros Meyers Capers Piers Ambus Ambrocio Landers Myers Rivers Amber Powers Travers Sellers Saunders Rodgers Ambrosio Ambrous Evers Sanders Ambar Chambers Ambrose Rogers Anders

Sibling names for Ambers

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

For a sister

Marvel Socorro Ofelia Edward Billy Donald Bennie Paul

For a brother

Normand Frances Carrol Sanford Jules Bud Rolland Gaylord

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