Ambrose

Where Ambrose comes from

From Latin saints' name Ambrosius, from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrósios, “immortal, divine”). Compare Athanasius.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ambrose
  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1824
    Ambrose Burnside born
    American general and politician
  2. 1842
    Ambrose Bierce born
    American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #291 among boys — 32 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1881
    Peak, #233
    43 babies named Ambrose — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Ambrose Bierce · American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist, 1842–1914
  • Ambrose Burnside · American general and politician, 1824–1881
  • Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini · former Prime Minister of Eswatini, 1968–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.