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Amberlee vs Ambria

American parents have registered 2,106 Ambrias since 1880, against 2,080 Amberlees. Ambria is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amberlee against Ambria, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amberlee Ambria

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 35 years and Ambria for 20 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Amberlee Ambria
Total US births 2,0802,106
Most in one year 65108
Babies in 2025 89
Estimated living today 2,0002,100
Median age today 2725
Peak year 19912002
Best rank 2,073rd girls1,695th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th10,107th
First recorded 19711977
Girls / boys 2,080 / 02,106 / 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 Ambrias are over 25. That is 2 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 Ambria.