Amber Girl
How popular is Amber?
#520 girl name in 2025
576 baby girls were named Amber in the US in 2025, making it the 520th most popular girl name.
Amber popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #520 for girls (▲ 20 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 576 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-41% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #334 in 2015, #510 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1986 (16,954 girls) |
| Highest rank | #13 in 1986 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Amber counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Amber family of names ranked #439 for girls in 2025 (#440 the year before), with 684 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amber | 576 | 84% |
| Ambar | 108 | 16% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Amber is most popular
Babies named Amber per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Utah: 0.7 per 1,000 (61 girls)
- California: 0.6 per 1,000 (519 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.6 per 1,000 (109 girls)
- Colorado: 0.6 per 1,000 (62 girls)
- New York: 0.5 per 1,000 (214 girls)
Amber by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 46 | #580 |
| 1890s | 131 | #767 |
| 1900s | 170 | #640 |
| 1910s | 327 | #812 |
| 1920s | 304 | #1,253 |
| 1930s | 192 | #1,372 |
| 1940s | 537 | #832 |
| 1950s | 1,255 | #694 |
| 1960s | 5,467 | #277 |
| 1970s | 47,063 | #22 |
| 1980s | 153,951 | #13 |
| 1990s | 115,605 | #15 |
| 2000s | 36,217 | #47 |
| 2010s | 10,023 | #222 |
| 2020s | 3,402 | #510 |
Girl names about as popular as Amber
Questions
- Is Amber a boy or girl name?
- Amber is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Amber were girls.
- How popular is the name Amber?
- 576 baby girls were named Amber in the US in 2025, making it the 520th most popular girl name.
- When was Amber most popular?
- Amber peaked in 1986, when 16,954 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #13 in 1986.
- How many people are named Amber?
- 375,668 babies have been named Amber in the US since 1880. We estimate about 364,677 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 38.
- Where is Amber most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Amber was most common in Utah, at 0.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.