Ambar
Ambar was given to 108 girls in 2025, #1,844 among girls’ names; 3,031 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,980 Americans named Ambar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 10 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ambar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ambar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ambar is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अम्बर (ambara).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ambar?
#1,844 among girls’ names, 2025
Ambar rose from #2,779 in 2015 to #1,844 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 35.3 to 67.2 per million.
123 babies in 2024, the peak
Ambar peaked in 2024, when 123 girls were given it, #1,665 among girls’ names. The 108 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,844 | 67.2 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,665 | 75.9 |
| 2023 | 92 | #2,090 | 57.3 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,406 | 46.3 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,893 | 35.3 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,970 | 33.4 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,599 | 39.9 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,482 | 41.7 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,602 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,383 | 26.5 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,779 | 35.3 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,042 | 30.8 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,125 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,468 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,269 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,257 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,674 | 37.0 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,996 | 30.7 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,712 | 34.8 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,557 | 37.3 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,932 | 29.8 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,126 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,299 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,779 | 30.1 |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,044 | 45.5 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,672 | 30.3 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,640 | 29.9 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,278 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 82 | #1,813 | 47.1 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,056 | 38.2 |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,680 | 49.5 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,900 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,981 | 38.7 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,217 | 32.5 |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,812 | 41.6 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,123 | 32.1 |
| 1989 | 73 | #1,814 | 39.6 |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,982 | 33.7 |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,570 | 46.0 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,024 | 30.9 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,750 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,150 | 27.3 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,531 | 43.7 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,474 | 47.8 |
| 1981 | 88 | #1,397 | 52.8 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,136 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,048 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ambar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ambar has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ambar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ambar, and how old are they?
2,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,031 Americans ever recorded as Ambar. The median Ambar alive today is 23 years old; half are between 10 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 3,363 people named Ambar (3,233 women and girls, 130 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,060 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 964 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 927 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ambar born?
The states with the most babies named Ambar are Texas, California and Florida, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,271 | 1.6× |
| California | 16 | #1,412 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,554 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,047 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 6 | #915 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,371 | 0.1× |
Where Ambar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ambar is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ambar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 379,477 babies since 1880, Ambar is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 108 of their 684 babies (16%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ambar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ambar and names like it
- Compare Ambar and AmberBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmbar peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ambar since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Ambar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ambar.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ambar alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.