first name
AMBER
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 322,911 people named Amber, 75.7% reported their origin as White, 8.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Amber peaked in 1986, when 17,008 babies got the name.
At least 375,668 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Amber by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #40. The largest share of babies named Amber, 62.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Amber is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Amber has been most common in Alaska (2.2×), Wyoming (2.1×), and Nevada (1.9×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.38×).
371,773 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Amber
Spelled almost the same
3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Amber, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Amber ranks #37,174 of 156,621, with 645 people. See Amber as a last name
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