Given name & surname
Ambers
“immortal, divine”
Ambers is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ambers is a diminutive of Ambrose. Ambrose goes back to Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος, meaning “immortal, divine.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In English use, Ambers is a diminutive of Ambrose. An origin associated with Ambrose is Late Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Ambers is a diminutive of Ambrose.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1881. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ambers through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 113
- 113 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1929
- 10 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 boys is 5 in 1942. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1929. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 757 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ambers’s family of names
In English usage, Ambers is a diminutive of Ambrose.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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