Ambra
Ambra was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 906 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ambra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ambra mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Ambra is “a female given name of modern usage” Its etymology gives the sense “amber” (ambra).
ambra (“amber”), cognate to the English name Amber.
/ˈam.bra/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ambra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,233, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1981, the peak
Ambra peaked in 1981, when 63 girls were given it, #1,768 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | #12,233 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,526 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,586 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,055 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,806 | 3.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,687 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,101 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,262 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,919 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,270 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 | #9,394 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,198 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,393 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,525 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,498 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,848 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,526 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,613 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,421 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,087 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,368 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,295 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,711 | 22.2 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,800 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,612 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,621 | 21.6 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,400 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,575 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,516 | 21.5 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,251 | 26.0 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,768 | 37.8 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,652 | 21.1 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,678 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,390 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,766 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,682 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,954 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,786 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,881 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,800 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,020 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,019 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,499 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,654 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,826 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,904 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,871 | 3.1 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,120 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,491 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ambra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ambra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ambra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ambra, and how old are they?
An estimated 872 Americans named Ambra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 34 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 831 people named Ambra (824 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 876 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,046 babies since 1880, Ambra is the second most given (18% of them).
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 Ambra
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 Ambra and names like it
- Compare Ambra and AmbriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAmbra peaked in 1981.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ambra since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Ambra: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Ambra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ambra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.