Amber Surname
Approximately 9,345 people bear this surname
Amber Surname Definition:
An Anglo-Saxon personal name, whence Amberley, Ambersham, Amberhill, &c.
Amber Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 2,884 | 1:61,943 | 2,340 |
| United States | 1,398 | 1:259,270 | 24,498 |
| Israel | 715 | 1:11,969 | 1,834 |
| Nigeria | 630 | 1:281,179 | 15,881 |
| Australia | 419 | 1:64,429 | 7,723 |
| India | 362 | 1:2,118,965 | 71,393 |
| Afghanistan | 357 | 1:90,065 | 2,449 |
| Saudi Arabia | 318 | 1:97,031 | 14,320 |
| Iran | 316 | 1:242,983 | 18,505 |
| Egypt | 305 | 1:301,429 | 19,796 |
| England | 202 | 1:275,832 | 21,591 |
| Algeria | 187 | 1:206,586 | 24,330 |
| Russia | 185 | 1:779,044 | 64,443 |
| Philippines | 179 | 1:565,577 | 63,118 |
| Indonesia | 139 | 1:951,433 | 70,299 |
| Canada | 94 | 1:391,974 | 34,739 |
| Japan | 53 | 1:2,412,156 | 30,150 |
| Turkey | 45 | 1:1,729,365 | 63,766 |
| Northern Cyprus | 43 | 1:7,419 | 1,739 |
| China | 39 | 1:35,059,527 | 1,855 |
| United Arab Emirates | 39 | 1:234,930 | 15,673 |
| Wales | 38 | 1:81,435 | 6,830 |
| Spain | 29 | 1:1,612,139 | 47,760 |
| South Africa | 28 | 1:1,934,918 | 88,980 |
| Lithuania | 27 | 1:112,392 | 13,972 |
| Malaysia | 19 | 1:1,552,328 | 64,490 |
| Latvia | 18 | 1:113,891 | 16,101 |
| Singapore | 17 | 1:323,983 | 13,856 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| Belarus | 14 | 1:678,647 | 56,781 |
| Germany | 13 | 1:6,192,728 | 213,814 |
| Qatar | 12 | 1:196,500 | 26,891 |
| France | 10 | 1:6,642,272 | 293,169 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
| Mauritania | 10 | 1:409,486 | 16,302 |
| Mexico | 10 | 1:12,412,620 | 43,480 |
| Argentina | 9 | 1:4,749,268 | 159,873 |
| Scotland | 9 | 1:594,869 | 21,724 |
| Taiwan | 9 | 1:2,604,972 | 16,335 |
| Estonia | 8 | 1:165,226 | 26,217 |
| New Zealand | 8 | 1:566,040 | 34,598 |
| Poland | 8 | 1:4,751,094 | 138,864 |
| Jamaica | 7 | 1:409,992 | 9,090 |
| Cambodia | 6 | 1:2,581,191 | 8,069 |
| Ireland | 5 | 1:941,788 | 16,185 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Bangladesh | 4 | 1:39,839,193 | 17,324 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 1:4,221,794 | 131,139 |
| Uzbekistan | 4 | 1:7,732,286 | 43,643 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 1:2,445,161 | 9,595 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Kazakhstan | 3 | 1:5,894,165 | 166,702 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Northern Ireland | 2 | 1:922,518 | 18,701 |
| Azerbaijan | 2 | 1:4,824,561 | 42,415 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1 | 1:55,199 | 1,294 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 1:112,659 | 1,704 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,429,866 | 40,727 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 89 | 1:273,881 | 19,201 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:784,208 | 16,349 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 106 | 1:473,761 | 33,810 |
Amber (363,458) may also be a first name.
Amber Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
An Anglo-Saxon personal name, whence Amberley, Ambersham, Amberhill, &c.
From Ambrieres. Thomas de Ambrieres occurs in Normandy 1195 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae).
Amber Demographics
Average Amber Salary in
United States
$38,601 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Amber Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amber Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Amber (Arabic: العنبري, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﻣﺒﺮ, Hindi: अम्बर, Marathi: अंबर, Oriya: ଅେର, Russian: Амбер, Tibetan: ཨམ་བར་) occurs in Pakistan more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Amber? popularity and diffusion
It is the 54,439th most commonly held last name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 779,834 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 59 percent of Amber live; 42 percent live in South Asia and 38 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Amber is also the 2,858th most commonly used first name on earth, held by 363,458 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Pakistan, where it is borne by 2,884 people, or 1 in 61,943. In Pakistan it is primarily found in: Sindh, where 48 percent reside, Punjab, where 33 percent reside and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 14 percent reside. Excluding Pakistan it exists in 96 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 15 percent reside and Israel, where 8 percent reside.
Amber Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Amber has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Amber last name increased 1,319 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 227 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it increased 1,900 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it increased 900 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it increased 500 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Amber Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Amber last name is principally Catholic (100%) in Ireland and Orthodox (67%) in Russia.
In The United States Amber are 10.84% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 57.61% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Amber earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 150.56% more than the national average, earning R 595,416 per year; in United States they earn 10.54% less than the national average, earning $38,601 USD per year and in Canada they earn 21.47% more than the national average, earning $60,348 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Amber Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Amber in the Oriya language | ||
| ଅେର | aera | - |
| Amber in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཨམ་བར་ | amwar | 94.66 |
| ཨ་བར་ | awar | 1.12 |
| ཨམ་བིར་ | ambir | 0.84 |
| དམ་བར་ | damwar | 0.56 |
| ཨ་མར་ | amar | 0.56 |
| ཨཱམ་བཱར་ | ambar | 0.56 |
| ཨམ་བཱར | ambar | 0.28 |
| ཨཱམ་བར་ | amwar | 0.28 |
| ཨམ་མར་ | ammar | 0.28 |
| ཨམ་བར | amwar | 0.28 |
| ཨམ་ | am | 0.28 |
| ཨམ་བཱར་ | ambar | 0.28 |
| Amber in the Hindi language | ||
| अम्बर | ambara | 89.02 |
| अम्बेर | ambera | 7.32 |
| अंबर | ambara | 1.22 |
| अम्बिर | ambira | 1.22 |
| Amber in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﻣﺒﺮ | ambr | 83.33 |
| ﺃﻣﺒﺮ | ambr | 16.67 |
| Amber in the Marathi language | ||
| अंबर | ambara | 68.04 |
| आंबेर | ambera | 20.62 |
| अंबेर | ambera | 7.22 |
| अंबीर | ambira | 3.09 |
| बेर | bera | 1.03 |
| Amber in the Russian language | ||
| Амбер | amber | - |
| Amber in the Arabic language | ||
| العنبري | alnbry | - |
| ألعنبر | alnbr | - |
| العنبر | alnbr | - |
| أمبر | ambr | - |
| عنبرا | nbra | - |
| امبر | ambr | - |
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