Amberlynn
Feminine · “amber”
The amber in Amberlynn records a mistake that is eight hundred years old. The word originally meant ambergris, a waxy substance from the gut of a sperm whale that washes up on beaches; the fossil tree resin we now call amber got the name because it washed up on the same beaches and was the same color.
How old is the name Amberlynn?
Amberlynn first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Amberlynn alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,400 people named Amberlynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amberlynn most popular?
Amberlynn peaked in 2014, reaching #2739 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 3,586 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
Where it comes from
From anbar to Amberlynn
The story of Amberlynn
Amber entered English as a jewel word and became a girl's name in the nineteenth century, in the same movement that produced Ruby, Pearl and Opal; it became enormously popular in the United States in the 1980s. Once a name is that common, families reach for ways to keep it and distinguish it at the same time, and the American answer since the 1960s has been the -lyn family of endings, which attach to almost anything. Amberlynn is Amber extended by that suffix, and it belongs to the second wave rather than the first: its best year is 2014, roughly thirty years after Amber's own peak. That gap is standard; extended forms follow their parent by a generation.
Meaning
amber, from an Arabic word for ambergris, with an English suffix
Amber comes through Old French ambre from Arabic anbar, which meant ambergris. European languages transferred the word to fossil resin during the Middle Ages, and the two substances have nothing in common but their color and their habit of washing ashore. The -lynn ending derives from the Welsh-derived Lynn and carries no meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- anbar
- ambre
- Amber
- Amberlynn
Related forms: Ambar · Anbar · Amberlyn
Pronouncing Amberlynn
AM-ber-lin
Three syllables with the stress at the front. The doubled n at the end changes nothing audible; it is the written mark of the -lynn family rather than the -lyn one.
Nicknames for Amberlynn
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 201163 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2739reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −28.0%18 in 2025, from 25
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.
Amberlynn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ambar in Spanish — related form
- Anbar in Arabic — related form
- Amberlyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Amberlynns among us
people named Amberlynn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Amberlynn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amberlynn
- #6325
- Amberlynn on the 2025 chart
- #923
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amberlynn went to 18 girls in 2025, but Amberlyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 37, which makes it the 923rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,402 places above the chart.
- Amberlyn19
- Amberlynn18
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,293 for Amberlynn itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Delayne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amberlynn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Delayne climbed just as high around 1946, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Delayne's path sketches the road Amberlynn is walking now.
Amberlynn 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
Amberlynn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amberlynn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Contains a complete, well-established name that works on its own at any age.
- The color and the stone give it a concrete, easily explained sense.
- Longer and less common than Amber while sounding entirely familiar.
- Amberlyn, Amberlynn and Amberly all appear in the records.
- The -lynn ending dates it firmly to recent decades, unlike Amber itself.
- Most people will simply call her Amber.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amberlynns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Amberlynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amberlynn?
- Amberlynn is one of 2 recorded spellings. Amberlyn is the more common one — 19 births in 2025 against 18 for Amberlynn.
- How popular is the name Amberlynn in 2025?
- Amberlynn ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amberlynn?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Amberlynn — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amberlynn with classmates?
- Amberlynn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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