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 Male Amber Height
173.76 cm
Average Female Amber Height
160.84 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Amber Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amber Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Amber (Arabic: العنبري, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﻣﺒﺮ, Hindi: अम्बर, Marathi: अंबर, Oriya: ଅେର, Russian: Амбер, Tibetan: ཨམ་བར་) is carried by more people in Pakistan than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Amber click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Amber? popularity and diffusion
The surname Amber is the 54,439th most frequently occurring last name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 779,834 people. It is primarily found in Asia, where 59 percent of Amber live; 42 percent live in South Asia and 38 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 2,858th most commonly used first name globally. It is borne by 363,458 people.
The last name is most common in Pakistan, where it is borne by 2,884 people, or 1 in 61,943. In Pakistan Amber is most numerous in: Sindh, where 48 percent live, Punjab, where 33 percent live and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 14 percent live. Other than Pakistan this last name is found in 96 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 15 percent live and Israel, where 8 percent live.
Amber Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Amber has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Amber surname grew 1,319 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 227 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it grew 1,900 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 900 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it grew 500 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Amber Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Amber surname is primarily Catholic (100%) in Ireland and Orthodox (67%) in Russia.
In The United States Amber are 10.84% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 57.61% registered with the political 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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