Entry № 521 · Arabic origin

Amber Amber — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AM-ber /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Fossilized resin (Amber Riley, Glee; Amber Tamblyn)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "fossilized resin (amber riley, glee; amber tamblyn)".

Amber is from the Arabic ʿanbar (عنبر) — originally referring to ambergris, later transferred to the fossilized tree resin that became a precious gemstone. Baltic amber has been traded along the "Amber Road" trade route since 3000 BCE; the largest single piece (the Burmese Hoff Amber) weighs 33 lbs. West End Olivier Award for Dreamgirls (2017). Amber Heard — actress.

Fossilized resin (Amber Riley, Glee; Amber Tamblyn) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

عنبر
Transliteration
ʿAnbar
Pronunciation
/ ˈæm.bər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amber stands.

Amber does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ambers before her.

Real people
Amber Riley
American actress (Glee).
born 1986
Amber Tamblyn
American actress and activist.
born 1983
Amber Rose
American model.
born 1983
Amber Ruffin
American comedian.
born 1979
In fiction
Mercedes Jones
Glee.
2009

Names connected to Amber.

The number behind Amber.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amber reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.