Amberlyn
Amberlyn was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,133 among girls’ names; 1,683 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Amberlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amberlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amberlyn?
#6,133 among girls’ names, 2025
Amberlyn fell from #3,654 in 2015 to #6,133 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 11.8 per million.
62 babies in 2011, the peak
Amberlyn peaked in 2011, when 62 girls were given it, #2,796 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,133 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,272 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,424 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,301 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,976 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,865 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,351 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,566 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,484 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,969 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,654 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,371 | 26.3 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,771 | 35.3 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,271 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,796 | 35.2 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,413 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,895 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,322 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,053 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,179 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,125 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,494 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,944 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,012 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,255 | 23.3 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,654 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,895 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,013 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,548 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,421 | 30.2 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,219 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,843 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,569 | 26.5 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,215 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,881 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,222 | 17.9 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,807 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,391 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,665 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,351 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,363 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,974 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,482 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,723 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,899 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,721 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,764 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,672 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,538 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,366 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,014 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amberlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amberlyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amberlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amberlyn, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,683 Americans ever recorded as Amberlyn. The median Amberlyn alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,313 people named Amberlyn (1,313 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,566 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 447 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 731 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 413 |
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 Amberlyn born?
The states with the most babies named Amberlyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 164 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 124 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Utah | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Amberlyn 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,335 babies since 1880, Amberlyn is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 37 babies (51%), again the 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 Amberlyn
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 Amberlyn and names like it
- Compare Amberlyn and AmberlynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmberlyn peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amberlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Amberlyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amberlyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.