Given name
Amba
Amba is a feminine given name from Sanskrit. It is used in English and Sranan Tongo.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amba through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 138 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amba’s family of names
In English usage, Amba has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form अंबा.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amba
- Lalita PawarIndian actress1916–1998
- Amba Bongowriter in DRCborn 1962
- Sufi Amba PrasadIndian revolutionary (1858–1919)
- Amba PrasadIndian politicianborn 1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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