Given name & surname
Ambre
“resembling the jewel; a warm honey color”
Ambre is a variant of Amber. One French interpretation is “resembling the jewel; a warm honey color.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ambre 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
Ambre 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 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Ambre 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
Ambre through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 676
- 0 boys · 676 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 33 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 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1987. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 620 as a first name in 2020; 194 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.
Ambre’s family of names
Ambre has a related form in Amber. In French usage, Ambre has a conventional equivalent in the German form Amber.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ambre
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Ambre, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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“resembling the jewel; a warm honey color”
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Sydnie
“from the wide meadow” · “of the wide meadow”
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Amberia
“resembling the jewel; a warm honey color”
>99% girls
Amberly
“resembling the jewel; a warm honey color”
>99% girls
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“from the river; woman from India”
>99% girls
Inda
“from the river; woman from India”
>99% girls
Alyse
“noble” · “kind”
>99% girls