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Ambra

Girls' name

Amber

Ambra has been given to 906 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1981, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Ambra, 2020

1 in 477,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ambra: meaning, origin, and history

Amber

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ambra means

Ambra means “amber”, associated with ambra.

Origin, language, and formation

Ambra is used in Albanian and Italian.

Ambra is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Ambra is pronounced /ˈam.bra/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 906 girls were recorded with the name Ambra between 1952 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,768 in 1981.

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 Ambra?

Ambra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ambra 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 2020 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 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ambra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ambras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ambra was born before 1986 — so the typical Ambra is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
45.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
906
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (408).

Is Ambra 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 1981 (63)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,768
1981

Spellings of Ambra

Ambra is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 34.2% against Ambra's 0.06%.

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 Ambra is used

Across 1910–2025, Ambra was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 305,843 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Washington1 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. Ambra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ambra around the world

Where Ambra 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
    1998–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1998–2025
    #4,115
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1960–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ambra 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,768
1981
Peak year
1981
63 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
906
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ambra

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

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Sibling names for Ambra

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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