Ambra
Feminine · “Amber”
Ambra is the Italian word for amber, used as a name — and amber is one of the few substances that gave its name to something far larger than itself.
How old is the name Ambra?
Ambra first appears in US birth records in 1952 — 73 years ago. The typical Ambra alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 900 people named Ambra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ambra most popular?
Ambra peaked in 1981, reaching #1767 nationally. See the whole 1981 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Ambra
Rub a piece of amber on cloth and it picks up dust and straw. The Greeks noticed this, and their word for amber was elektron — so when European scientists needed a word for the force they were investigating two thousand years later, they built it from the Greek name of the stone that had first demonstrated it. Electricity, electron, electronic: all of them are, at the root, the word amber. The material itself had an older kind of importance. Baltic amber was carried south to the Mediterranean along established routes centuries before Rome amounted to anything, and pieces of northern resin turn up in Mycenaean graves — one of the first long-distance trades in European history, for a substance whose only use was that it was beautiful.
Meaning
Amber
The Italian noun, taken directly. Amber is fossilized tree resin, warm to the touch, light enough to float in salt water, and often carrying insects that were trapped in it before there were people to look at them. The name means the substance and nothing more.
Pronouncing Ambra
AHM-bruh
Two syllables, stress at the front. Italian gives the first vowel a fuller sound than American English does.
Nicknames for Ambra
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
- 1952
- Most girls named
- 198163 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1767reached in 1981
- Change vs 2019
- 0.0%7 in 2020, from 7
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.
Ambra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ambra in Italian — same name
- Amber in English — related form
- Bursztyn in Polish — related form
Ambras among us
people named Ambra are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Ambra sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete, warm and immediately understood in several languages.
- It is a word name whose word is a physical object rather than an abstraction.
- It is rare in America while being an ordinary name in Italy.
- Americans will hear Amber and write it.
- The consonant cluster in the middle is easy to say and looks harder than it is.
- The obvious shortening is a word she will not want, which limits the options.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ambras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Ambra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ambra in 2025?
- Ambra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Ambra with classmates?
- Ambra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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