Ambers

Last seen for boys in 1942 at #3,560

Peak · boys
1881 · 8 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
113
since 1881

Ambers over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ambers has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201881peak #653, 1881boys
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1881#6538
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First appearance
1881

The first year at least five boys were named Ambers! It came in at #653, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1882–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Ambers is popular in 1881

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Ambers
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1942
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1881
  • Peaked 1881 at #653 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1882, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1881
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,592
  • Highest: 1 in 12,592 boys born in 1881 were named Ambers (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 276,232 boys born in 1942 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 39.8% of all boys named Ambers (45) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s8#653 (1881)#653
1890s0——
1900s0——
1910s43#1,740 (1911)#3,171
1920s45#2,589 (1929)#3,375
1930s12#3,252 (1935)#3,265
1940s5#3,560 (1942)#3,560

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ambers in 1881

boys
#653
8 births · 1 in 12,592 boys

Top boys' names in 1881

  1. #1John8,768
  2. #2William8,524
  3. #3James5,441
  4. #4George4,664
  5. #5Charles4,636
  6. #6Frank2,834
  7. #7Joseph2,456
  8. #8Henry2,339
  9. #9Thomas2,282
  10. #10Edward2,177
  11. #653Ambers8
More about 1881

boys

100,735 boys got a published name in 1881; 1 in 12,592 of them was named Ambers, which outranked 34.4% of the 996 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 43.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ambers
  1. #595Vivian9
  2. #595Willian9
  3. #595Young9
  4. #653Ambers8
  5. #653Aloysius8
  6. #653Archer8
  7. #653Bailey8
  8. #706Addie7
  9. #706Albion7
  10. #706Alec7

Tied with 52 names at #653; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1880
Risers
  1. ↑ 491Noble#809 → #318
  2. ↑ 449Ivy#909 → #460
  3. ↑ 449Buck#909 → #460
  4. ↑ 376Chin#909 → #533
  5. ↑ 376Ransom#909 → #533
Fallers
  1. ↓ 431Neil#350 → #781
  2. ↓ 378Alvah#403 → #781
  3. ↓ 361Webster#505 → #866
  4. ↓ 356Melville#425 → #781
  5. ↓ 316Hector#465 → #781

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1881 →