Given name & surname

Ambrosia

Ambrosia is a feminine given name from Spanish. It is used in Tagalog.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.

How it developed

From Spanish Ambrosia.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Ambrosia through the years

Babies since 1880
1,700
0 boys · 1,700 girls
Most popular year
1981
65 babies
2025
8
#10,991 for girls
2021–25 vs 2016–20
−17%
Easing
0102030401900192019401960198020002025Highest share 19815.0
Ambrosia in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1900–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,991 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 17.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 65 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,572 as a first name in 2020; 522 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.

Ambrosia’s family of names

Ambrosia has a related form in Ambrose. Ambrosia has a related form in Ambrose. Ambrosia has a related form in Ambrosa.

Walk Ambrosia’s family in the name graph

AmbrosiaAmbroziaAmbròsiaAmbroseAmbrozineAmbrosinaAmbrosineAmbrosaAmbrosiahAmbrossiaAmhrosineAmbrusineAmbrotosaAmbrozyneAmbrozynaAmbrozynAmbrozinAmbrozja

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Ambrosia

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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Sibling ideas

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