Ambrosia

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births

Peak · girls
1900 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,700
since 1900

Ambrosia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ambrosia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201992peak #1,723, 1900girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,9178
2024#11,1228
2023#6,92216
2022#8,54212
2021#11,1468
2020#13,4536
2019#8,59712
2018#8,61712
2017#7,09216
2016#6,90117
2015#7,26616
2014#10,9559
2013#6,72918
2012#6,57619
2011#6,14821
2010#10,45110
2009#5,89123
2008#6,79919
2007#5,52625
2006#6,35620
2005#3,46143
2004#3,49042
2003#3,73137
2002#3,88933
2001#2,88150
2000#2,77752
1999#2,30764
1998#2,65151
1997#2,77644
1996#2,76044
1995#2,48651
1994#2,50350
1993#2,48950
1992#2,48851
1991#2,38853
1990#2,25856
1989#2,52745
1988#2,07156
1987#1,99156
1986#2,02553
1985#2,39841
1984#2,11147
1983#2,19844
1982#2,45139
1981#1,73465
1980#1,88657
1979#2,99728
1978#5,21412
1977#5,53211
1976#5,60110
1975#7,9846
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1917#4,5945
1916#3,9196
1915#3,7956
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First appearance
1900

The first year at least five girls were named Ambrosia! It came in at #1,723, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1901–1914, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Ambrosia
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 205 spots since 2024 (#11,122#10,917)
  • 2,536 spots since 2020 (#13,453#10,917)
  • 3,651 spots since 2015 (#7,266#10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1900
  • Peaked 1900 at #1,723 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1901, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 25,662
  • Highest: 1 in 25,662 girls born in 1981 were named Ambrosia (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,723 in 1900, was only 1 in 49,964 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 30.2% of all girls named Ambrosia (514) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s6#1,723 (1900)#1,723
1910s17#3,795 (1915)#4,103
1920s24#3,125 (1923)#3,670
1930s11#3,701 (1936)#3,953
1940s6#4,054 (1944)#4,054
1950s0
1960s0
1970s67#2,997 (1979)#5,466
1980s503#1,734 (1981)#2,139
1990s514#2,258 (1990)#2,511
2000s344#2,777 (2000)#4,480
2010s150#6,148 (2011)#7,933
2020s58#6,922 (2023)#10,350

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ambrosia in 1992

girls
#2,488
51 births · 1 in 36,156 girls

Top girls' names in 1992

  1. #1Ashley38,460
  2. #2Jessica38,361
  3. #3Amanda25,039
  4. #4Brittany24,983
  5. #5Sarah24,634
  6. #6Samantha24,407
  7. #7Emily21,835
  8. #8Stephanie19,680
  9. #9Elizabeth19,035
  10. #10Megan17,842
  11. #2,488Ambrosia51
More about 1992

girls

1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 36,156 of them was named Ambrosia, which outranked 84.1% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ambrosia
  1. #2,459Tempest52
  2. #2,459Winnie52
  3. #2,459Zena52
  4. #2,488Ambrosia51
  5. #2,488Alexzandria51
  6. #2,488Bessie51
  7. #2,488Elisheva51
  8. #2,513Aide50
  9. #2,513Alejandrina50
  10. #2,513Aleksandra50

Tied with 24 names at #2,488; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1991
Risers
  1. 2,282Darian#2,989#707
  2. 1,958Payton#2,660#702
  3. 1,450Peyton#2,034#584
  4. 1,115Chandler#1,656#541
  5. 1,080Brianda#1,857#777
Fallers
  1. 855Rebeccah#1,000#1,855
  2. 725Ieshia#717#1,442
  3. 502Miesha#997#1,499
  4. 470Unknown#794#1,264
  5. 356Phylicia#928#1,284

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1992