Ambrose
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #735 for boys in 2025, 358 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1881 · 43 births
- Debut · boys
- 32 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,868since 1880
Ambrose over time
Rank among boys' names. Ambrose has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #735 | 358 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #739 | 349 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #788 | 320 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #721 | 365 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #672 | 402 |
| 2020 | — | #818 | 281 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #961 | 222 |
| 2018 | — | #1,465 | 118 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,630 | 97 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,641 | 97 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,588 | 101 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,701 | 89 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,613 | 95 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,909 | 75 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,284 | 56 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,187 | 60 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,401 | 53 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,062 | 67 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,235 | 59 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,176 | 59 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,325 | 50 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,316 | 49 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,470 | 42 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,403 | 42 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,410 | 25 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,330 | 41 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,782 | 29 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,347 | 35 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,679 | 28 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,500 | 30 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,766 | 26 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,007 | 40 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,214 | 34 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,768 | 45 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,870 | 41 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,993 | 36 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,706 | 41 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,655 | 41 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,617 | 40 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,594 | 40 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,098 | 25 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,594 | 37 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,929 | 28 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,629 | 36 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,619 | 36 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,570 | 37 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,718 | 31 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,571 | 35 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,873 | 26 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,304 | 44 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,659 | 29 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,653 | 28 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,473 | 33 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,526 | 32 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,615 | 28 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,642 | 25 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,083 | 47 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,652 | 22 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,450 | 28 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,144 | 43 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,082 | 49 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,238 | 39 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,013 | 57 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,262 | 39 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,083 | 51 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,172 | 44 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,071 | 51 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,130 | 46 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,106 | 47 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,075 | 49 | |
| 1954 | — | #933 | 63 | |
| 1953 | — | #966 | 55 | |
| 1952 | — | #953 | 56 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,052 | 46 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,181 | 37 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,013 | 47 | |
| 1948 | — | #852 | 64 | |
| 1947 | — | #906 | 59 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,019 | 45 | |
| 1945 | — | #954 | 46 | |
| 1944 | — | #769 | 66 | |
| 1943 | — | #703 | 83 | |
| 1942 | — | #699 | 85 | |
| 1941 | — | #925 | 47 | |
| 1940 | — | #770 | 64 | |
| 1939 | — | #818 | 55 | |
| 1938 | — | #749 | 67 | |
| 1937 | — | #771 | 63 | |
| 1936 | — | #660 | 79 | |
| 1935 | — | #663 | 80 | |
| 1934 | — | #708 | 74 | |
| 1933 | — | #632 | 84 | |
| 1932 | — | #581 | 104 | |
| 1931 | — | #717 | 72 | |
| 1930 | — | #591 | 104 | |
| 1929 | — | #591 | 104 | |
| 1928 | — | #547 | 123 | |
| 1927 | — | #589 | 111 | |
| 1926 | — | #482 | 155 | |
| 1925 | — | #467 | 165 | |
| 1924 | — | #479 | 166 | |
| 1923 | — | #485 | 158 | |
| 1922 | — | #472 | 170 | |
| 1921 | — | #437 | 195 | |
| 1920 | — | #406 | 209 | |
| 1919 | — | #431 | 187 | |
| 1918 | — | #420 | 192 | |
| 1917 | — | #403 | 199 | |
| 1916 | — | #418 | 179 | |
| 1915 | — | #393 | 187 | |
| 1914 | — | #392 | 147 | |
| 1913 | — | #381 | 122 | |
| 1912 | — | #388 | 98 | |
| 1911 | — | #452 | 42 | |
| 1910 | — | #370 | 48 | |
| 1909 | — | #371 | 41 | |
| 1908 | — | #499 | 25 | |
| 1907 | — | #448 | 27 | |
| 1906 | — | #363 | 33 | |
| 1905 | — | #452 | 24 | |
| 1904 | — | #344 | 34 | |
| 1903 | — | #340 | 32 | |
| 1902 | — | #388 | 26 | |
| 1901 | — | #294 | 35 | |
| 1900 | — | #305 | 47 | |
| 1899 | — | #336 | 28 | |
| 1898 | — | #274 | 43 | |
| 1897 | — | #299 | 37 | |
| 1896 | — | #282 | 42 | |
| 1895 | — | #289 | 38 | |
| 1894 | — | #298 | 34 | |
| 1893 | — | #239 | 52 | |
| 1892 | — | #335 | 31 | |
| 1891 | — | #325 | 27 | |
| 1890 | — | #282 | 37 | |
| 1889 | — | #338 | 27 | |
| 1888 | — | #280 | 41 | |
| 1887 | — | #307 | 29 | |
| 1886 | — | #311 | 30 | |
| 1885 | — | #298 | 32 | |
| 1884 | — | #288 | 36 | |
| 1883 | — | #275 | 36 | |
| 1882 | — | #277 | 38 | |
| 1881 | — | #233 | 43 | |
| 1880 | — | #291 | 32 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Ambrose was already there! It came in at #291, and was given to 32 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1967, when fewer than 29 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ambrose
- 4 spots since 2024 (#739 → #735)
- 83 spots since 2020 (#818 → #735)
- 853 spots since 2015 (#1,588 → #735)
- Biggest jump: 504 spots in 2019 (#1,465 → #961)
- Biggest drop: 185 spots in 1945 (#769 → #954)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1881 at #233 (43 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 78 yrs · run 1880–1945
- Highest: 1 in 2,160 boys born in 1893 were named Ambrose (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,771 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #233 in 1881, was only 1 in 2,343 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.1% of all boys named Ambrose (2,075) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 344 | #233 (1881) | #290 |
| 1890s | 369 | #239 (1893) | #296 |
| 1900s | 324 | #294 (1901) | #380 |
| 1910s | 1,401 | #370 (1910) | #405 |
| 1920s | 1,556 | #406 (1920) | #496 |
| 1930s | 782 | #581 (1932) | #689 |
| 1940s | 606 | #699 (1942) | #861 |
| 1950s | 494 | #933 (1954) | #1,064 |
| 1960s | 400 | #1,013 (1962) | #1,265 |
| 1970s | 323 | #1,304 (1975) | #1,596 |
| 1980s | 360 | #1,594 (1985) | #1,743 |
| 1990s | 337 | #1,768 (1991) | #2,380 |
| 2000s | 487 | #2,062 (2008) | #2,413 |
| 2010s | 1,010 | #961 (2019) | #1,698 |
| 2020s | 2,075 | #672 (2021) | #746 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ambrose in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 328,026 of them was named Ambrose, which outranked 13.8% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,454 names at #15,306; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 4,784 of them was named Ambrose, which outranked 95.0% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.