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Ambar vs Ambrosio

American parents have registered 3,031 Ambars since 1880, against 945 Ambrosios. Ambar is still ahead, with 108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ambar against Ambrosio, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ambar Ambrosio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 113 years in which either name was published, Ambrosio for 67 years and Ambar for 46 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ambar Ambrosio
Total US births 3,031945
Most in one year 12320
Babies in 2025 108under 5
Estimated living today 3,000560
Median age today 2245
Peak year 20241928
Best rank 1,664th girls1,707th boys
Rank in 2025 1,844thunranked
First recorded 19791905
Girls / boys 3,026 / 50 / 945

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ambrosios alive today are over 45; half the Ambars are over 22. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ambar Ambrosio
France 1010

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ambar and Ambrosio.