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Amber vs Ambrosio

American parents have registered 375,668 Ambers since 1880, against 945 Ambrosios. Amber is still ahead, with 576 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amber against Ambrosio, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amber Ambrosio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Amber has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1937, when Amber had 12 and Ambrosio had 11.

Side by side

  Amber Ambrosio
Total US births 375,668945
Most in one year 17,00820
Babies in 2025 576under 5
Estimated living today 363,000560
Median age today 3745
Peak year 19861928
Best rank 13th girls1,707th boys
Rank in 2025 520thunranked
First recorded 18801905
Girls / boys 374,690 / 9780 / 945

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ambrosios alive today are over 45; half the Ambers are over 37. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amber Ambrosio
France 64010

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amber and Ambrosio.