Meaning not yet researched.
Ambrose: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 358 in 2025. Its best rank was #233 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #233 in 1881; #735 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Ambrose in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#735 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #233.
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Ambrose: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 358 boys in 2025. Peak: #233 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 402 (2021).
In 2025, 358 US boys were named Ambrose, making it the 735th most common boys’ name of the year, up 4 places from #739 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 349 boys named Ambrose in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #233, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 402, in 2021. For comparison, it was #1,588 in 2015 and #1,182 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ambrose in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 32 babies with the name. In all, 10,911 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,112 babies named Ambrose.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,609 US boys were named Ambrose; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 402. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,771 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ambrose ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #227 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emrys (1,651 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ambrosio, Ambros and Ambrous are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Brose.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ambrosio (945), Ambros (41), Ambrous (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 5 | #227 | — |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #232 | — |
| Kansas | 10 | #353 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #379 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #438 | — |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #440 | — |
| Minnesota | 12 | #447 | — |
| Indiana | 14 | #484 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #501 | — |
| Arizona | 13 | #528 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #533 | — |
| Michigan | 15 | #540 | — |
| Missouri | 10 | #560 | #821 |
| Iowa | 5 | #576 | — |
| Illinois | 15 | #608 | #1,078 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #609 | — |
| Virginia | 11 | #629 | — |
| Ohio | 14 | #651 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #662 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #683 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #690 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #696 | — |
| California | 36 | #732 | #1,880 |
| Texas | 35 | #778 | #1,542 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #780 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #845 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #921 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #922 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #942 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,209 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,259 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,084 | 358 | #735 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,246 | 349 | #739 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,026 | 320 | #788 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,459 | 365 | #721 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,347 | 402 | #672 |
| 2020 | — | — | 281 | #818 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,937 | 222 | #961 |
| 2018 | — | — | 118 | #1,465 |
| 2017 | — | — | 97 | #1,630 |
| 2016 | — | — | 97 | #1,641 |
| 2015 | — | — | 101 | #1,588 |
| 2014 | — | — | 89 | #1,701 |
| 2013 | — | — | 95 | #1,613 |
| 2012 | — | — | 75 | #1,909 |
| 2011 | — | — | 56 | #2,284 |
| 2010 | — | — | 60 | #2,188 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,402 |
| 2008 | — | — | 67 | #2,062 |
| 2007 | — | — | 59 | #2,236 |
| 2006 | — | — | 59 | #2,178 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,328 |
| 2004 | — | — | 49 | #2,316 |
| 2003 | — | — | 42 | #2,474 |
| 2002 | — | — | 42 | #2,404 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,416 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,331 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,867 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,787 |
| 1997 | — | — | 35 | #2,349 |
| 1996 | — | — | 28 | #2,683 |
| 1995 | — | — | 30 | #2,506 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,769 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,009 |
| 1992 | — | — | 34 | #2,215 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,768 |
| 1990 | — | — | 41 | #1,870 |
| 1989 | — | — | 36 | #1,993 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,706 |
| 1987 | — | — | 41 | #1,655 |
| 1986 | — | — | 40 | #1,617 |
| 1985 | — | — | 40 | #1,594 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,098 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,594 |
| 1982 | — | — | 28 | #1,930 |
| 1981 | — | — | 36 | #1,629 |
| 1980 | — | — | 36 | #1,621 |
| 1979 | — | — | 37 | #1,570 |
| 1978 | — | — | 31 | #1,721 |
| 1977 | — | — | 35 | #1,571 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,874 |
| 1975 | — | — | 44 | #1,304 |
| 1974 | — | — | 29 | #1,660 |
| 1973 | — | — | 28 | #1,654 |
| 1972 | — | — | 33 | #1,474 |
| 1971 | — | — | 32 | #1,528 |
| 1970 | — | — | 28 | #1,616 |
| 1969 | — | — | 25 | #1,642 |
| 1968 | — | — | 47 | #1,083 |
| 1967 | — | — | 22 | #1,654 |
| 1966 | — | — | 28 | #1,450 |
| 1965 | — | — | 43 | #1,144 |
| 1964 | — | — | 49 | #1,082 |
| 1963 | — | — | 39 | #1,239 |
| 1962 | — | — | 57 | #1,013 |
| 1961 | — | — | 39 | #1,262 |
| 1960 | — | — | 51 | #1,083 |
| 1959 | — | — | 44 | #1,172 |
| 1958 | — | — | 51 | #1,071 |
| 1957 | — | — | 46 | #1,130 |
| 1956 | — | — | 47 | #1,106 |
| 1955 | — | — | 49 | #1,075 |
| 1954 | — | — | 63 | #933 |
| 1953 | — | — | 55 | #966 |
| 1952 | — | — | 56 | #953 |
| 1951 | — | — | 46 | #1,052 |
| 1950 | — | — | 37 | #1,182 |
| 1949 | — | — | 47 | #1,013 |
| 1948 | — | — | 64 | #853 |
| 1947 | — | — | 59 | #906 |
| 1946 | — | — | 45 | #1,019 |
| 1945 | — | — | 46 | #954 |
| 1944 | — | — | 66 | #769 |
| 1943 | — | — | 83 | #703 |
| 1942 | — | — | 85 | #699 |
| 1941 | — | — | 47 | #925 |
| 1940 | — | — | 64 | #770 |
| 1939 | — | — | 55 | #818 |
| 1938 | — | — | 67 | #749 |
| 1937 | — | — | 63 | #772 |
| 1936 | — | — | 79 | #660 |
| 1935 | — | — | 80 | #663 |
| 1934 | — | — | 74 | #708 |
| 1933 | — | — | 84 | #632 |
| 1932 | — | — | 104 | #581 |
| 1931 | — | — | 72 | #718 |
| 1930 | — | — | 104 | #591 |
| 1929 | — | — | 104 | #591 |
| 1928 | — | — | 123 | #548 |
| 1927 | — | — | 111 | #589 |
| 1926 | — | — | 155 | #482 |
| 1925 | — | — | 165 | #467 |
| 1924 | — | — | 166 | #479 |
| 1923 | — | — | 158 | #485 |
| 1922 | — | — | 170 | #472 |
| 1921 | — | — | 195 | #437 |
| 1920 | — | — | 209 | #406 |
| 1919 | — | — | 187 | #431 |
| 1918 | — | — | 192 | #420 |
| 1917 | — | — | 199 | #403 |
| 1916 | — | — | 179 | #418 |
| 1915 | — | — | 187 | #394 |
| 1914 | — | — | 147 | #392 |
| 1913 | — | — | 122 | #381 |
| 1912 | — | — | 98 | #388 |
| 1911 | — | — | 42 | #452 |
| 1910 | — | — | 48 | #370 |
| 1909 | — | — | 41 | #372 |
| 1908 | — | — | 25 | #499 |
| 1907 | — | — | 27 | #448 |
| 1906 | — | — | 33 | #363 |
| 1905 | — | — | 24 | #452 |
| 1904 | — | — | 34 | #344 |
| 1903 | — | — | 32 | #340 |
| 1902 | — | — | 26 | #389 |
| 1901 | — | — | 35 | #294 |
| 1900 | — | — | 47 | #305 |
| 1899 | — | — | 28 | #337 |
| 1898 | — | — | 43 | #274 |
| 1897 | — | — | 37 | #299 |
| 1896 | — | — | 42 | #282 |
| 1895 | — | — | 38 | #289 |
| 1894 | — | — | 34 | #298 |
| 1893 | — | — | 52 | #239 |
| 1892 | — | — | 31 | #335 |
| 1891 | — | — | 27 | #325 |
| 1890 | — | — | 37 | #283 |
| 1889 | — | — | 27 | #338 |
| 1888 | — | — | 41 | #280 |
| 1887 | — | — | 29 | #307 |
| 1886 | — | — | 30 | #311 |
| 1885 | — | — | 32 | #299 |
| 1884 | — | — | 36 | #288 |
| 1883 | — | — | 36 | #275 |
| 1882 | — | — | 38 | #277 |
| 1881 | — | — | 43 | #233 |
| 1880 | — | — | 32 | #291 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).