Amber

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled אמר in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 1 more and Imer in XK Kosovo.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Amber is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name37K records spelled Amber10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

  Also written আমের, Ameru

• Chinese given name13K records spelled Amber9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Taiwan, United Kingdom, China

  Languages: Chinese, Burmese

  Also written Ambër, Âmbêr, Åmber, Ambêr, Ambert

• a separate given name9.2K records spelled Amber3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada

  Also written Åmbēr, Ämbër

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Amber is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Arabic: “precious ornament”; Gaelic meaning is not given in the text.

  as a name·Tên Họ Người Việt Nam

• From the vocabulary word for the gemstone amber, a word derived via Old French and Latin from Arabic ambar. This was first used as a given name at the end of the roth century, but has become particularly popular in the past couple of decades. In part it owes its popularity to Kathleen Winsor’s novel Forever Amber (1944).

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, ruined city, India

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, The name of a semi-precious stone

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 142 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Amber Lynnb. 1964USpornographic performer (b. 1964)
• Amber Smithb. 1971USAmerican actress and model
• Amber Vallettab. 1974USAmerican model and actress
• Tiffani Thiessenb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1974)
• Amber Tamblynb. 1983USAmerican actress and writer
• Amber Rose Levonchuckb. 1983USAmerican model and television personality
• Amber Heardb. 1986USAmerican actress
• Amber Stevens Westb. 1986USAmerican actress and model
• Amber Rose Revahb. 1986GBBritish actress
• Amber Rileyb. 1986USAmerican actress and singer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,106 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amber?

We estimate roughly 326 thousand people bear Amber (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Amber have the most bearers?

We estimate about 322 thousand people bear Amber in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled amber.

Where is Amber most common?

Amber is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Amber compared with other names?

In the United States, Amber is the 229th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Amber a male or female name?

Amber is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Amber mean?

Recorded meaning: Muslim: 'amber, brownish-yellow' or 'jewel'; widely used in African jewelry and popular with Somali women.