Ambrosia
Ambrosia was given to 8 girls in 2025, #10,987 among girls’ names; 1,700 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,610 Americans named Ambrosia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 23 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ambrosia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ambrosia mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Ambrosia is “a female given name from Spanish, masculine equivalent Ambrosio”
Borrowed from Spanish Ambrosia.
/ʔamˈbɾosja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ambrosia?
#10,987 among girls’ names, 2025
Ambrosia fell from #7,293 in 2015 to #10,987 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 5.0 per million.
65 babies in 1981, the peak
Ambrosia peaked in 1981, when 65 girls were given it, #1,735 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,987 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,181 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,949 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,571 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,208 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,546 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,627 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,649 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,113 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,920 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,293 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,033 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,739 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,598 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,155 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,498 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,905 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,814 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,534 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,371 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,457 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,495 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,733 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,891 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,878 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,776 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,305 | 36.1 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,648 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,773 | 25.3 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,757 | 25.1 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,481 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,500 | 28.0 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,487 | 27.6 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,484 | 27.7 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,382 | 28.3 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,253 | 29.5 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,523 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,067 | 31.4 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,990 | 32.2 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,025 | 30.9 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,401 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,111 | 27.9 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,199 | 26.3 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,454 | 23.0 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,735 | 39.0 |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,886 | 34.3 |
| 1979 | 28 | #2,998 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,228 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,539 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,609 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,015 | 4.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,070 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,711 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,231 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,308 | 5.0 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,132 | 8.3 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,615 | 6.7 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,616 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,933 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,806 | 6.1 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,729 | 20.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ambrosia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ambrosia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ambrosia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ambrosia, and how old are they?
1,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,700 Americans ever recorded as Ambrosia. The median Ambrosia alive today is 32 years old; half are between 23 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,572 people named Ambrosia (1,547 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,564 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 118 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 779 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 546 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 157 |
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 Ambrosia born?
The states with the most babies named Ambrosia are California, Texas and Colorado, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Colorado is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 132 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 115 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 12 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Mexico | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Ambrosia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ambrosia
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 Ambrosia and names like it
- Compare Ambrosia and LaceeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAmbrosia peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ambrosia since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ambrosia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Ambrosia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ambrosia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.