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Amberlee vs Amberlynn

American parents have registered 2,080 Amberlees since 1880, against 1,431 Amberlynns. But in 2025 it was Amberlynn that was commoner, 18 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amberlee against Amberlynn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amberlee Amberlynn

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

Of the 55 years in which either name was published, Amberlee for 42 years and Amberlynn for 13 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Amberlee Amberlynn
Total US births 2,0801,431
Most in one year 6563
Babies in 2025 818
Estimated living today 2,0001,400
Median age today 2717
Peak year 19912011
Best rank 2,073rd girls2,763rd girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th6,325th
First recorded 19711976
Girls / boys 2,080 / 01,431 / 0

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 Amberlees alive today are over 27; half the Amberlynns are over 17. That is 10 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.

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