Ambrosio
Masculine · “Immortal”
Ambrosio is the Spanish and Italian form of a Greek word about not dying. It is one of the oldest ideas any name carries, and it arrived in the Romance languages early enough to sound entirely native in both.
How old is the name Ambrosio?
Ambrosio first appears in US birth records in 1905 — 120 years ago. The typical Ambrosio alive today was born around 1957, making them about 68 years old. About 600 people named Ambrosio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ambrosio most popular?
Ambrosio peaked in 1905, reaching #1233 nationally. See the whole 1905 chart.
Where it comes from
From Ambrosios to Ambrosio
The story of Ambrosio
The name belongs above all to Ambrose of Milan, and the way he got his office is one of the better stories in church history. He was the Roman governor of the province, not a priest and not even baptized, and he went to the cathedral to keep the peace during a disputed election. The crowd elected him instead. He was baptized, ordained and consecrated bishop inside a week, and then spent the rest of his life proving they had been right. The name has an older British life too: the monk Gildas, writing his furious account of Britain's collapse, praises exactly one Briton by name — Ambrosius Aurelianus, the last of the Romans, who rallied the defense. Everything later legend built around Merlin and Arthur is anchored to that one sentence.
Meaning
Immortal
The Greek adjective ambrosios means immortal or divine. It is built from a negative prefix and the root behind mortal, so the word is, in its bones, not-dying. The reading is not disputed.
How the name formed
- Ambrosios
- Ambrosius
- Ambrosio
Related forms: Ambrose · Ambrogio · Ambroise · Ambrósio · Ambroży
Pronouncing Ambrosio
ahm-BROH-see-oh
Four syllables with the weight on the second. English speakers often reduce it to three, and the Italian Ambrogio replaces the middle sound entirely.
Nicknames for Ambrosio
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
- 1905
- Most boys named
- 192116 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1233reached in 1905
- Change vs 2021
- 0.0%7 in 2023, 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.
Ambrosio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ambrose in English — same name
- Ambrogio in Italian — same name
- Ambroise in French — same name
- Ambrósio in Portuguese — same name
- Ambroży in Polish — same name
Ambrosios among us
people named Ambrosio 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
Ambrosio 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 settled, ancient and unusually large for a single word.
- It is at home in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese without a change of spelling worth mentioning.
- The English form, Ambrose, is available as a ready alternative in an English-speaking setting.
- It is a formal, four-syllable name in a country that will try to cut it to one.
- In American English the obvious middle shortening is now a slang word, and that will come up.
- It reads as distinctly old-world, which is either the point or a problem depending on the family.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ambrosios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Ambrosio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ambrosio in 2025?
- Ambrosio is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Ambrosio with classmates?
- Ambrosio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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