Ambush

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ambush is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Pitcairn Islands it is the 7th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack or kill by surprise.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 875K◐
  • PNPitcairn Islands1 in 945
  • MAMorocco1 in 1M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈380 ●

across 1 country

Sources
112 ●

3.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 875K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack or kill by surprise.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ambush is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3803.4K rec.1 in 875K380Ambush112
GB United Kingdom—147149 rec.——Ambush7
RU Russia—3637 rec.——Ambush2
PN Pitcairn Islands#72996 rec.——Ambush1
MA Morocco—1414 rec.——Ambush1
AU Australia—1212 rec.——Ambush3

Roughly 380 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 875K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.5K87%
  • Spanish1434%
  • Swahili772%
  • Hindi501%
  • 471%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,53787%
Spanish1434%
Swahili772%
Hindi501%
471%

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◐

Ambush is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname127 records spelled Ambush3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

29 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.

Evidence●

Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Ambush
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010380#54,296
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020352#61,594
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000339#56,392
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ambush?
We estimate roughly 380 people bear Ambush (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Ambush have the most bearers?
We estimate about 380 people bear Ambush in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ambush.
How common is Ambush compared with other names?
In Pitcairn Islands, Ambush is the 7th most common surname of 220 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Ambush mean?
Recorded meaning: The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack or kill by surprise.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ambush” — the 7th most common surname in Pitcairn Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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