Amber
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About Amber
Though perhaps not as currently stylish as Ruby, Jade, or Pearl, Amber has a colorful history (remember the notorious Forever Amber heroine?). Unfortunately, it does come with the "Amber Alert" connotation for modern parents (and their children).
Pronounced AM-bur.
As of October 2026, Amber ranked #520 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #13 in 1986, Nameberry popularity #455.
Editor's take: The name Amber is a girl's name of English origin.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #305 | 1,064 | 595.6 |
| 2015 | #334 | 978 | 547.9 |
| 2016 | #375 | 871 | 491.5 |
| 2017 | #402 | 782 | 452.9 |
| 2018 | #469 | 665 | 390.9 |
| 2019 | #480 | 653 | 389.1 |
| 2020 | #510 | 594 | 367.4 |
| 2021 | #534 | 579 | 352.9 |
| 2022 | #540 | 569 | 346.9 |
| 2023 | #574 | 519 | 323.4 |
| 2024 | #541 | 558 | 344.4 |
| 2025 | #520 | 576 | 358.4 |
World rankings
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Amber on lists
Famous Ambers
- Amber Rose (Levonchuk)
American model and actress
- Amber Laura Heard
American actress
- Amber Rose Tamblyn
American actress
- Amber Evangeline Valletta
American supermodel
- Amber Riley
American actress and singer
- Tiffani
Amber Thiessen, American actress
- Amber Portwood
American reality TV personality ("Teen Mom")
- Amber O'Neal/Holly
American wrestler (born Kimberly Dawn Davis)
- Amber Marie Jaeger
American actress
- Amber Josephine Liu
Taiwanese,American singer and rapper from South Korean girl group f(x)\
- Amber Gray
American actress
- Amber Rudd
British Home Secretary
- Amber Mark
American singer,songwriter
- Amber Fillerup Clark
blogger
- Amber Jean Young
daughter of singer Neil Young
- Amber Joy Halsey
daughter of Jaime Moore & Steve Halsey
- Amber Dancy
American singer
- Amber Chia
Malaysian supermodel
- Amber Mariano
Reality Television personality best known for “Survivor”
- Amber Elaine Glenn
American figure skater
Amber in pop culture
- Amber St. Clare
main character in Kathleen Winsor's novel "Forever Amber"
- Amber Mariens
character in movie "Clueless"
- Amber Brown
title character in book series by Paula Danziger
- Amber von Tussle
character in musical/film "Hairspray"
- Amber
character in "Rainbow Fairies" series
- Amber Millington
character on TV's "House of Anubis"
- Amber
character on TV's "Hannah Montana"
- Amber Dean
character on British TV's "Some Girls"
- Amber Volakis
character on TV's "House"
- The Chronicles of Amber
a fantasy novel series by Roger Zelazny
- Amber House Trilogy
series by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed and Larkin Reed
- Amber (The One
Legged Hypoglycemic), Amy Poehler character on TV's "Saturday Night Live"
- Amber
character in anime "Darker than Black"
- Amber Simpson
character on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Amber
character on TV's "The Tribe"
- AMBER Alert
U.S. public notification of a kidnapped child
- Amber Holt
character on TV's "Parenthood"
- Amber Magewood
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Amber Horn (A.K.A. Eva Mansfield)
character in MTV's "Awkward."
- Amber
character on Disney Junior's animated show "Sofia the First"
- Lady Amber
a squirrel in "Mossflower" by Brian Jacques
- Amber
character on Hit FOX sitcom "Married...with Children" appeared in 4 episodes from 1994 to 1995 , played by Juliet Tablak
- Amber
female dinosaur character in the Saturday Morning cartoon series "Dink the Little Dinosaur"
- Amber
main character in series "Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!"
- Amber
The alter ego of The Fool in the "Realm of the Elderlings" book series by Robin Hobb