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Amber
Pronounced /ˈæm.bə/
Rank in 2024
#541
Born in 2024
558
Peak year
1986 · #13
Origin
English, Hindi
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 558 girls were named Amber, about 1 in every 2,891.
- It peaked in 1986 with 16,955 babies, ranked #13.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 374,103 girls have been named Amber since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Amber per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 2.5Gen X1965–80
- 8.3Millennials1981–96
- 2.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 724 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 425 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,495 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen X: 63,211 babies, 2.47 per 1,000. Millennials: 233,318 babies, 8.26 per 1,000. Gen Z: 63,792 babies, 2.20 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,946 babies, 0.44 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”). ==== Proper noun ==== Amber A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s. 1854 Harper's Magazine, Volume IX, June to November 1854, page 667 ("Lady Amber Mayne") The youngest daughter of the Marchioness of Summerdown had one of these quaint, pretty names - Amber! - and what a pretty creature she was! A surname of uncertain origin. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations =====
- A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
- A male given name from Hindi.
- Origin
- English, Hindi
- Say it
- /ˈæm.bə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Amber, CC BY-SA 4.0.