Meaning not yet researched.
Ambrosia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,730 in 1900.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,730 in 1900; #10,991 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ambrosia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,991 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1900, at #1,730.
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Ambrosia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,730 in 1900 · most girls in one year: 65 (1981).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Ambrosia, making it the 10,991st most common girls’ name of the year, up 195 places from #11,186 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 girls named Ambrosia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,730, reached in 1900. The most girls given the name in a single year was 65, in 1981. For comparison, it was #7,296 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ambrosia in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 6 babies. In all, 1,700 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 514 babies named Ambrosia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 115 US girls were named Ambrosia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ambrocio and Ambrasia are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ambrocio (53), Ambrasia (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.
No nicknames listed for Ambrosia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,991 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,186 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,954 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,576 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,213 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,551 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,632 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,654 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,117 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,923 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,296 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,039 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,743 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,601 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,158 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,503 | — | — |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,907 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,817 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,537 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,373 | — | — |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,737 | — | — |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,895 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,651 | — | — |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,388 | — | — |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 1979 | 28 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,228 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,541 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,611 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,017 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,713 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,310 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,133 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,618 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,808 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,730 | — | — |
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).