Ambrose

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Ambrose is ranked 741st among boys in 2024 (345 births). Its best rank was 233rd, in 1881.

Rank in 2024: #741up 47 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3450.02% of boys
Peak year: 2021402 births
Best rank: #233in 1881
Since 1880: 10,503people given the name

Babies named Ambrose, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

10,503 boys have been named Ambrose in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 402 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 2020s alone account for 16%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Ambrose
1880s	344
1890s	369
1900s	324
1910s	1,401
1920s	1,556
1930s	782
1940s	606
1950s	494
1960s	400
1970s	323
1980s	360
1990s	337
2000s	487
2010s	1,009
2020s	1,711

In 2021, its biggest year

Ambrose was the 670th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Ambrose

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.