girls:
2.8k births since 1979
#3282 (43rd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1980
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1979
#5104 (34th percentile)
The name Ambar is the #5,104 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,799 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 34.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,282 (42.6% percentile) for all time with 2,794 births since 1979. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1980.
Ambar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for girls and 1980 for boys).
The name Ambar has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ambar reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 10.7% percentile (ranked #694) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 53 births per million (ranked 9.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ambar is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #860 (9.2% percentile) with 53 births per million.
For boys, Ambar reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #681) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ambar".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Amber. View all variations of Amber.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ambar", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Amber" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Amber..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ambar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.4% confident that Ambar is pronounced as AM-bahr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AM-ber, at 11.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 M B AA0 R) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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