girls:
373.5k births since 1880
#95 (98th percentile)
boys:
979 births since 1961
#3613 (21st percentile)
overall:
374.5k births since 1880
#190 (98th percentile)
The name Amber is the #190 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 374,511 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #95 (98.4% percentile) for all time with 373,532 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,613 (21.2% percentile) for all time with 979 births since 1961.
Amber has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1961 for boys). Birth data for Amber is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (140 years for girls and 38 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Amber has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Amber reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 98.5% percentile (ranked #13) with 9,187 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 9,187 births per million (ranked 98.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1988, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Amber ranks #495 for girls (47.8% percentile) with 296 births per million, which is 3.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Amber reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 8.1% percentile (ranked #696) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 31 births per million (ranked 7.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Amber".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Amber. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Amber is pronounced as AM-ber, which has 2 syllables.
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