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Ambar

Girls' name · Current · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~3,000 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#1,844 among girls
Births in 2025
108 3,031 since 1880
Typical age
22 years, median

Ambar popularity over time

Ambar rank by birth year, 1979–2025Ambar ranked #9,010 in 1979 and #1,844 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #1,396, in 1981.#10,000#1,84419801990200020102020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1979–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2024: 123 births recorded as Ambar. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1979. In 2025 it ranked #1,844 with 108 births.

The ten-year change is +71%. It slipped 180 places against the previous year.

Babies named Ambar per yearPeaks at 123 births in 2024.123 in 2024019801990200020102020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Ambar?

About 3,000 people named Ambar are alive in the United States today. That is out of 3,031 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Ambar?

Half of living Ambars are older than 22, half younger. The 1990s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Ambar a current name.

Your Ambar

Ages of living people named AmbarHalf of living Ambars are older than 22 and half younger.median 2202040
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Ambar is most common

Texas uses the name 2.1× as often as the country as a whole. Florida, New York and Arizona follow.

Where Ambar is used more than average5 states use the name Ambar more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 1.8× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.4× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: 1.5× the national rateAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: 2.1× the national rateTXFlorida: 2.1× the national rateFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Ambar is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Texas 157 2.1×
Florida 83 2.1×
New York 71 1.8×
Arizona 21 1.5×
California 118 1.4×

Ambar in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Ambar ranked #1,892 in 2025 on 15 births. That is 3.8× higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Ambar comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit अम्बर.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Names similar to Ambar

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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