Ambrosia
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1900 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,700since 1900
Ambrosia over time
Rank among girls' names. Ambrosia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 |
| 2005 | #3,461 | 43 |
| 2004 | #3,490 | 42 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 |
| 2000 | #2,777 | 52 |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 |
| 1998 | #2,651 | 51 |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 |
| 1996 | #2,760 | 44 |
| 1995 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 1994 | #2,503 | 50 |
| 1993 | #2,489 | 50 |
| 1992 | #2,488 | 51 |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 |
| 1990 | #2,258 | 56 |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 |
| 1988 | #2,071 | 56 |
| 1987 | #1,991 | 56 |
| 1986 | #2,025 | 53 |
| 1985 | #2,398 | 41 |
| 1984 | #2,111 | 47 |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 |
| 1982 | #2,451 | 39 |
| 1981 | #1,734 | 65 |
| 1980 | #1,886 | 57 |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
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| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
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| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
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| 1923 | #3,125 | 10 |
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| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 |
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| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 |
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| 1900 | #1,723 | 6 |
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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.
Where Ambrosia is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,030 · 1 in 23,315
Best ever in a state: #409 in New Mexico, 2003.
Show every state
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| Texas | #2,030 | 6 | 1 in 23,315 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ambrosia
- 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)
- Debuted 1900
- Peaked 1900 at #1,723 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1901, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 30.2% of all girls named Ambrosia (514) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | #1,723 (1900) | #1,723 |
| 1910s | 17 | #3,795 (1915) | #4,103 |
| 1920s | 24 | #3,125 (1923) | #3,670 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,701 (1936) | #3,953 |
| 1940s | 6 | #4,054 (1944) | #4,054 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 67 | #2,997 (1979) | #5,466 |
| 1980s | 503 | #1,734 (1981) | #2,139 |
| 1990s | 514 | #2,258 (1990) | #2,511 |
| 2000s | 344 | #2,777 (2000) | #4,480 |
| 2010s | 150 | #6,148 (2011) | #7,933 |
| 2020s | 58 | #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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 39,562 of them was named Ambrosia, which outranked 82.8% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,733Talitha45
- #2,733Xochilt45
- #2,733Zana45
- #2,776Ambrosia44
- #2,776Audrie44
- #2,776Augusta44
- #2,776Bibiana44
- #2,820Aeriel43
- #2,820Aleia43
- #2,820Alishia43
Tied with 43 names at #2,776; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.