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Ambrosia

The girl's name Ambrosia has been in the national records since 1900, with 1,700 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 1,600 Ambrosias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Ambrosia

By the numbers

Total US births
1,700
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
31
Peak year
1981
Best rank
1,734th
Rank in 2025
10,917th
First recorded
1900

How old the living Ambrosias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,700 babies given the name since 1900, about 1,600 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Ambrosia is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ambrosia is most concentrated in Texas (4.8×), California (4.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1981

The most popular girls’ names the year Ambrosia peaked:

All the names of 1981

Ambrosia elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Ambrosia 25 7,697th
England and Wales girls Ambrosia 3 5,876th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ambrosia among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Ambrosia 19

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Ambrosia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 364 women called Ambrosia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Ciudad Real Ambrosia 18 0.072 799
Cuenca Ambrosia 7 0.071 903
Albacete Ambrosia 12 0.062 896
Cádiz Ambrosia 40 0.062 783
Cáceres Ambrosia 11 0.056 988
Toledo Ambrosia 19 0.051 1,136

Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Ambrosia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.