Amberly
Feminine · “amber and meadow”
Amberly joins Amber to a -ly ending, and amber's own name is Arabic — anbar, which meant whale ambergris before it meant fossil resin.
How old is the name Amberly?
Amberly first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Amberly alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 6,600 people named Amberly are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amberly most popular?
Amberly peaked in 1986, reaching #950 nationally. Today it ranks #2002, 1,052 places below that high. See the whole 1986 chart.
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Where it comes from
From anbar to Amberly
The story of Amberly
Amber rose as an English girls' name from the 1940s and sharply from the 1970s. Amberley in Sussex and Gloucestershire are separately genuine English place names, from a personal name and leah. American families produced Amberly as a compound, and it appears in the registers from the 1980s in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
amber and meadow
The Amber element is from the Arabic anbar, which named ambergris from sperm whales; medieval Europe applied the word to fossil tree resin as well and the two were confused. The -ly ending may be from leah, 'clearing', or be a modern suffix. The compound is modern.
How the name formed
- anbar
- amber
- Amber
- Amberly
Related forms: Amberlee · Amberleigh · Amberley
Pronouncing Amberly
AM-bur-lee
Three syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Amberly
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 1991194 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #950reached in 1986
- Change vs 2024
- −18.1%95 in 2025, from 116
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Amberly in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amberlee in English — spelling variant
- Amberleigh in English — spelling variant
- Amberley in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Amberlys among us
people named Amberly are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 16,919 born in 2025 was named Amberly
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Charlsie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amberly's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Charlsie climbed just as high around 1930, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Charlsie's path sketches the road Amberly is walking now.
Amberly sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Amberly is headed
Amberly should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Amberly beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amberly in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The whale-to-tree-resin confusion behind amber is a first-rate trade etymology.
- Amber is available as a short form with a large record.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- At least four spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- The compound is modern rather than inherited.
- It is period-coded to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amberlys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,600 people named Amberly are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Amberly in 2025?
- Amberly ranks #2002 among US girl names in 2025, with 95 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amberly?
- About 1 in every 16,919 US girls born in 2025 was named Amberly — 95 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amberly with classmates?
- Amberly will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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