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Ambika

#10,158 in 2025Girls' name

Mother, good woman

Ambika has been given to 391 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #10,158 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Ambika, 2025

1 in 368,000

Ambika over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ambika: meaning, origin, and history

Mother, good woman

Sanskrit

What Ambika means

Ambika means “mother, good woman”, associated with ambikā.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit अम्बिका (ambikā, “mother, good woman”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ambika (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ambika is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 391 girls were recorded with the name Ambika between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2000; its best national rank was #5,500 in 2000.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,902 in 2015 to #10,158 in 2025.

How common is Ambika?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,158
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ambika 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 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ambika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ambikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ambika was born before 2001 — so the typical Ambika is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
391
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.1% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Ambika 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
+2,081
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,744
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.0%
Peak was 2000 (20)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,500
2000

Spellings of Ambika

Ambika is not the most common spelling — Amira is, with 16.4% against Ambika's 0.25%.

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.

Where Ambika is used

Across 1910–2025, Ambika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,782,448 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ambika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ambika around the world

Where Ambika 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Ambika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,158
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,500
2000
Peak year
2000
20 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
391
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Ambika

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

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Sibling names for Ambika

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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