Amber

Where Amber comes from

From amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Amber
  • English
  • Hindi
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1974
    Amber Valletta born
    American model and actress
  3. 1986
    Amber Heard born
    American actress
  4. 1986
    Peak, #13
    16,954 babies named Amber — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #37.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
  • A male given name from Hindi.
Namesakes
  • Amber Heard · American actress, born 1986
  • Amber Valletta · American model and actress, born 1974
  • Amber Benson · American actress, born 1977
  • Amber Tamblyn · American actress and writer, born 1983
  • Amber Rudd · British politician, born 1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.