Ambar
#1,844 for girls in 2025, 108 births · Last seen for boys in 1980 at #6,250
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 88 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,026since 1979
Ambar over time
Rank among girls' names. Ambar has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,844 | 108 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,664 | 123 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,090 | 92 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,404 | 76 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,892 | 58 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,966 | 54 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,478 | 71 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,773 | 63 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,123 | 52 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,267 | 50 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,256 | 50 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,672 | 68 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,995 | 58 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,710 | 67 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,555 | 71 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,935 | 55 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,127 | 49 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,301 | 73 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,048 | 82 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,279 | 62 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,816 | 82 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,058 | 67 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,684 | 87 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,905 | 74 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,985 | 70 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,220 | 60 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,818 | 78 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,128 | 61 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,818 | 73 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,986 | 60 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,570 | 80 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,025 | 53 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,749 | 34 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,149 | 46 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,531 | 73 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,474 | 81 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,396 | 88 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,134 | 27 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ambar! It came in at #9,010, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Ambar is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#1,055 · 1 in 6,895
- Arizona#1,219 · 1 in 7,657
- Florida#1,468 · 1 in 11,140
- Texas#1,619 · 1 in 12,783
- California#2,271 · 1 in 23,477
Best ever in a state: #466 in California, 1981.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,055 | 14 | 1 in 6,895 |
| Arizona | #1,219 | 5 | 1 in 7,657 |
| Florida | #1,468 | 8 | 1 in 11,140 |
| Texas | #1,619 | 13 | 1 in 12,783 |
| California | #2,271 | 10 | 1 in 23,477 |
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See more about Ambar
- 180 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,844)
- 1,122 spots since 2020 (#2,966 → #1,844)
- 929 spots since 2015 (#2,773 → #1,844)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1981 at #1,396 (88 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,172 girls born in 2024 were named Ambar (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,882 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,396 in 1981, was only 1 in 18,955 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.9% of all girls named Ambar (694) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #9,010 (1979) | #9,010 |
| 1980s | 615 | #1,396 (1981) | #1,983 |
| 1990s | 694 | #1,684 (1995) | #2,053 |
| 2000s | 632 | #2,048 (2001) | #2,680 |
| 2010s | 568 | #2,478 (2018) | #2,997 |
| 2020s | 511 | #1,664 (2024) | #2,310 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ambar in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 26,778 of them was named Ambar, which outranked 87.3% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,538Raine72
- #2,538Vania72
- #2,538Yesica72
- #2,555Ambar71
- #2,555Alijah71
- #2,555Amaia71
- #2,555Brynne71
- #2,579Adreanna70
- #2,579Aleyna70
- #2,579Allysa70
Tied with 23 names at #2,555; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.