Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Amber was most popular in 1986, when 17,008 American babies were given the name — ranking #39 that year. In 2025 it ranked #1,052, with 576 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 375,668 people named Amber.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Amber is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 142 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 375,668 American births named Amber between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 364,447 are estimated to be alive today.
576 American babies were named Amber in 2025, ranking #1,052 that year.
Amber is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 561 births a year, against 1,126 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -50% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Amber is a girl’s name — 99.7% of the 375,668 Americans given it were girls and 0.3% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 364,447 Americans named Amber are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 38 years old, and half are between 31 and 43. That is a narrow band: Amber arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org