Given name & surname
Ambra
“resembling the jewel; a warm honey color”
Ambra is a variant of Amber. One French interpretation is “resembling the jewel; a warm honey color.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ambra is a variant of Amber. One French interpretation is “resembling the jewel; a warm honey color.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ambra is a variant of Amber. An origin associated with Amber is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1952. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Ambra is a variant of Amber. The history of Amber gives this family its wider story. Amber began appearing as a given name toward the end of the nineteenth century. Kathleen Winsor’s 1944 novel Forever Amber later helped bring it wider attention.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Ambra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 906
- 0 boys · 906 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 63 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 7 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 63 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 831 as a first name in 2020; 137 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.
Ambra’s family of names
Ambra has a related form in Amber. In Italian usage, Ambra has a conventional equivalent in the German form Amber.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ambra
- Ambra AngioliniItalian singer, showgirl, actressborn 1977
- Ambra SabatiniItalian Paralympic athleteborn 2002
- Ambra GutierrezItalian modelborn 1992
- Ambra GambaleSouth African artist
- Ambra ValloItalian ballet dancerborn 2000
- Ambra PolidoriMexican photographerborn 1954
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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Amberly
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>99% girls