Ambrosius Forename

73,869th
Most Common
name in the World

Approximately 7,553 people bear this name

Most prevalent in:
Indonesia
Highest density in:
Namibia

Ambrosius Forename Definition:

A male name. (I. Ambrosius, French Ambroise, Italian Ambrogio); Greek άμβρόσιος, ‘pertaining to the immortals’. It became popular in the West as the name of St Ambrose the 4th-C Bishop of Milan. It occurs twice in Domesday Book and from time to time in the 12th and 13th C, and is given in Promptorium Parvulorum 1440 as an English name.

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Ambrosius Forename Distribution

PlaceGenderIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Indonesia
100%
6,2971:40,9665,333
Namibia
100%
7781:3,090535
Germany
100%
2151:449,6654,979
India
100%
1281:9,491,234290,599
South Africa
95%
 
301:1,817,75556,088
Papua New Guinea
94%
 
271:301,93824,448
Switzerland
100%
161:513,3448,079
Malaysia
100%
101:3,044,99479,253
United States-91:40,281,886265,873
Brazil-81:26,779,519235,888
Belgium
100%
61:1,915,00718,066
Italy
100%
41:15,265,52238,916
Uganda
100%
41:10,239,23065,177
Austria
100%
31:2,838,06711,255
Sweden
100%
31:3,285,96941,581
Israel
100%
21:4,201,45930,777
Finland-21:2,741,59219,235
Philippines
100%
11:106,009,477690,015
Russia-11:144,233,704184,271
Denmark-11:5,649,49828,429
South Korea-11:5,544,42137,250
Spain-11:46,529,96535,592
China-11:1,366,055,782109,249
Taiwan-11:23,769,682193,280
Thailand
100%
11:70,065,813391,235
Trinidad and Tobago-11:1,361,41934,512
Norway-11:5,132,32937,513
Netherlands
100%
11:16,902,08343,152

Ambrosius (3,273) may also be a surname.

Ambrosius Forename Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

A male name. (I. Ambrosius, French Ambroise, Italian Ambrogio); Greek άμβρόσιος, ‘pertaining to the immortals’. It became popular in the West as the name of St Ambrose the 4th-C Bishop of Milan. It occurs twice in Domesday Book and from time to time in the 12th and 13th C, and is given in Promptorium Parvulorum 1440 as an English name. In 1604 it occurs in a list of Yorkshire recusants, and it has been in regular though infrequent use during the last three centuries. The fairly common Welsh name Emrys is said to be a Welsh form of Ambrosius, and to go back to Ambrosius Aurelianus, the semi-historical 5th-C prototype of King Arthur.

Ambrosius Domesday Book 1087, Curia Regis Rolls 1189-1213. Ambroys Hundred Rolls 1273. Ambrose Promptorium Parvulorum c. 1440.

The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe

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