Amber (given name)

Amber is a feminine given name taken from amber, the fossilized tree resin that is often used in the making of jewelry. The word can also refer to a yellowish-orange color.
The name was in occasional use in the early 1800s, according to United States census records. It first came into regular use in the Anglosphere in the late 1800s along with other gemstone names popular during the Victorian era. It rose in popularity following the release of the 1944 historical romance novel Forever Amber by American author Kathleen Winsor. Amber has been a popular name in most English speaking countries. In the United States, it ranked among the top 1,000 names at different points between 1880 and 1916 and again consistently between 1945 and 2024. It peaked in usage there in the 1990s, when it was the 20th most popular name in the United States. It has ranked among the top 50 names for girls in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Australia and Canada in recent years. Variants have also been popular in other countries, including Ámbar in Spanish, which is currently among the most popular names for girls in Argentina, Ambre in French, which was among the top 10 names for newborn girls in France in recent years, and the Italian Ambra, which was among the top 10 names for baby girls in Albania and among the top 50 names for newborn girls in Italy in recent years.
English elaborations of the name in use include Amberlee, Amberleigh, Amberley, Amberli, Amberlie, Amberlin, Amberlinn, Amberly, Amberlyn and Amberlynn, among others.

Women

Amber , Dutch pop music/dance music performer and singer
Amber, stage name for Rie Eto, Japanese pop music artist
Amber Agar, English actress
Amber Aguirre, American ceramic sculptor
Amber Allen, Canadian professional soccer player
Amber An, Taiwanese actress, singer, television host, and model
Amber Anderson, British actress, pianist, and model
Amber Anning, British runner
Amber Arcades, Dutch singer-songwriter
Amber Arlint, American politician
Amber Atherton, British entrepreneur and investor
Amber Bain, birth name of The Japanese House, English indie pop musician
Amber Baker, American politician
Amber Balcaen, Canadian professional stock car racing driver
Amber Barrett, Irish international footballer
Amber Barretto, American actress
Amber Bellringer, New Zealand netball player
Amber Benson, American actress
Amber Bondin, Maltese singer
Amber Bowman, Canadian ice hockey player and firefighter
Amber Boykins, American politician
Amber Bracken, Canadian photojournalist
Amber Bradley, Western Australian former rower
Amber Brantsen, Dutch broadcaster and journalist
Amber Briggle, American activist
Amber Brock, American author
Amber Brooks, American NWSL player
Amber Brown , American mixed martial arts fighter
Amber Bullock, American urban contemporary gospel artist and musician
Amber Butchart, British fashion historian and writer
Amber Campbell, American hammer thrower
Amber Campisi, American model, Playmate of the month for February 2005
Amber Carrington, American contestant on The Voice
Amber Case, American cyborg anthropologist, user experience designer, and public speaker
Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress
Amber Christine Meidinger, American convicted criminal
Amber Clarke, Australian AFLW player
Amber Coffman, American singer-songwriter
Amber Cope, American professional stock car racing driver
Amber Copley, American beauty pageant titleholder
Amber Corwin, American figure skater
Amber Cowan, American artist and educator
Amber Cox, American sports executive
Amber Creek, American murder victim
Amber Curreen, New Zealand actress and theatre producer
Amber D. Miller, American experimental cosmologist
Amber D, British hard dance DJ
Amber Dalton, American professional esports player
Amber Dalton, Canadian founder of printmaking company Articulate Ink
Amber Davies, Welsh actress and television personality
Amber Dawn, Canadian writer, editor, and poet
Amber de Botton, British journalist and political adviser
Amber Dermont, American author and professor
Amber Dotson, American country music artist
Amber DuBois, American murder victim
Amber Duncan, American murder victim
Amber E. Boydstun, American political- and data scientist
Amber English, American sport shooter
Amber Fallon, American editor and horror story writer
Amber Fares, Lebanese Canadian filmmaker, documentarian, director, and cinematographer
Amber Ferenz, American musician, music educator, and composer
Amber Ferreira, American triathlete, coach, and endurance athlete
Amber Fiser, American WPF player
Amber Fleury, Canadian recording artist
Amber Frank, American actress
Amber Frey, American mistress of convicted murderer Scott Peterson
Amber Galloway, American sign language interpreter, especially of songs
Amber Gaylor, English association footballer
Amber Gell, American program manager, former engineer and scientist, and STEM education advocate
Amber Gersjes, Dutch judoka
Amber Giles, birth name of Mija, American DJ, music producer, and promoter
Amber Gill, English television personality and author
Amber Glenn, American figure skater
Amber Gray, American actress and singer
Amber Guyger, American convicted murderer
Amber Hagerman, American murder victim, after whom the Amber alert was named
Amber Hall , Canadian former WNBA player
Amber Hall , New Zealand rugby league footballer
Amber Halliday, South Australian former rower and cyclist
Amber Harris, American WNBA player
Amber Harrison, alternate name of Fiona Richmond, English former glamour model and actress
Amber Hayes, American country music singer-songwriter
Amber Heard, American actress
Amber Hearn, New Zealand former professional soccer player
Amber Hikes, American civil rights activist
Amber Hodgkiss, British actress
Amber Holcomb, American singer
Amber Holland, Canadian curler
Amber Holt, American WNBA player
Amber Hood, American actress
Amber Hughes, American triple jumper and hurdler
Amber Hunt, several people
Amber Hurst Martin, American singer and actress
Amber J. Lawson, American producer, entrepreneur, and online content- and development executive
Amber Jackson, American former college- and professional softball player, and former college softball head coach
Amber Jacobs, American former WNBA player
Amber-Jade Sanderson, Australian politician
Amber Joiner, American politician
Amber Joseph, Barbadian cyclist
Amber Joy Vinson, American nurse who tested positive for the Ebola virus
Amber K, pseudonym of Kitty Randall, American occult writer
Amber Kaldor, Australian acrobatic gymnast
Amber Kani, New Zealand rugby league footballer
Amber-Keegan Stobbs, English professional footballer
Amber Kelleher-Andrews, American relationship matchmaker
Amber Kirk-Ford, British columnist, blogger, and vlogger
Amber Kraak, Dutch cyclist
Amber Kuo, Taiwanese singer and actress
Amber L. Hollibaugh, American writer, filmmaker, activist, and organizer
Amber L. Puha, American mathematician and educator
Amber Lancaster, American television personality
Amber Lawrence, Australian country music singer-songwriter-guitarist
Amber Le Bon, English fashion model
Amber Lee Connors, American voice actress, dubbing director, and line producer
Amber Lee Ettinger, American actress, Internet celebrity, model, and singer
Amber Leibrock, American mixed martial artist
Amber Littlejohn, Native American professional figure competitor
Amber Liu, several people
Amber Lu, alternate name of Lu Shan, Chinese actress and model
Amber Lynn, several people
Amber Lyon, American investigative journalist, filmmaker, and photographer
Amber MacArthur, Canadian Internet- and television personality
Amber Mae Cecil, Australian radio-, theatre-, and television actress
Amber Marchese, American television personality and entrepreneur
Amber Mariano, American television personality
Amber Mariano , American politician
Amber Marie Bollinger, American actress
Amber Mark, American singer, songwriter, and producer
Amber Marks, British barrister and author
Amber Marshall, several people
Amber Maximus, Belgian footballer
Amber McBride, American author, poet, and professor
Amber McLaughlin, American transgender woman executed for rape and murder
Amber McNaught, British blogger, author, and former local journalist
Amber McReynolds, American election administration expert
Amber Merritt, English-born Australian wheelchair basketball player
Amber Midthunder, American actress
Amber Morley, Canadian politician
Amber Moss-Birch, English boxer
Amber Musser, English professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies
Amber Nash, American actress and improvisational comedian
Amber Neben, American racing cyclist
Amber Neilson, Australian retired soccer player
Amber Ojeda, American contestant on Platinum Hit
Amber O'Neal, American professional wrestler
Amber Parkinson, Australian épée fencer
Amber Pate, Australian professional cyclist
Amber Peebles, New Zealand TV host and beauty pageant titleholder
Amber Penrith, English rugby union player
Amber Peterson, Canadian freestyle skier
Amber Petty, Australian contestant on Australian Survivor
Amber Pierce, American professional racing cyclist
Amber Pilley, Australian former rugby league footballer
Amber Portwood, American reality television personality and convicted criminal
Amber Preston, American stand-up comedian
Amber Ramirez, American basketball player
Amber Rayne, American pornographic actress
Amber Reed, English rugby union player
Amber Reeves, New Zealand-born British feminist writer and scholar
Amber Richards, American transgender female impersonator, performer, and television personality
Amber Richards, New Zealand set decorator
Amber Riley, American actress, most famous for her role on the television series Glee as Mercedes
Amber Chardae Robinson, actress
Amber Robles-Gordon, American mixed media visual artist
Amber Rolfzen, American volleyball player
Amber Rose, American model
Amber Rose Kandarian, Armenian-American filmmaker
Amber Rose Revah, British actress, writer, and voice artist
Amber-Rose Rush, New Zealand murder victim
Amber Rubarth, American singer-songwriter and actress
Amber Rudd, British politician, MP for Hastings and Rye, former Home Secretary
Amber Ruffin, American writer, comedian, and talk-show host
Amber Rutter, English sport shooter
Amber S. Boehnlein, American particle physicist, computer scientist, and administrator
Amber Sainsbury, New Zealand actress, philanthropist, and producer
Amber Savva, English actress and theatre producer
Amber Scorah, Canadian-American writer, speaker, and activist
Amber Scott, Australian ballet dancer
Amber Sealey, British-American actress, screenwriter, and film producer- and director
Amber Settle, American computer scientist and professor of education and theory
Amber Seyer, American beauty pageant titleholder
Amber Share, American author and illustrator
Amber Shepherd, birth name of Amba Shepherd, Australian singer
Amber Sherlock, Australian journalist, television news presenter, and reporter
Amber Sibley, American make-up artist
Amber Siyavus, American waitress, and contestant on Big Brother 8
Amber Skye Noyes, American actress and singer
Amber Slagle, American professional stock car racing driver, crew chief, and engineer
Amber Smith, several people
Amber Stevens West, American actress
Amber Stachowski, American water polo player
Amber Stocks, American WNBA executive consultant, coach, and former player
Amber Straughn, American astrophysicist
Amber Swartz-Garcia, American kidnapping victim
Amber Tamblyn, American actress
Amber Tang, Hong Kong hostess and actress
Amber Templemore-Finlayson, British film- and television director
Amber Theoharis, American journalist, sports anchor- and reporter, documentary film producer, and tech executive
Amber Thomas, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
Amber Torrealba, American skimboarder and filmmaker
Amber Tuccaro, Canadian First Nations woman who went missing in 2010, and found dead in 2012
Amber Tysiak, Belgian professional footballer
Amber Valletta, American actress and model
Amber van der Hulst, Dutch professional racing cyclist
Amber Verspaget, Dutch footballer
Amber Wadham, Australian Internet personality, also known as Paladin Amber
Amber Wagner, American soprano
Amber Ward, Australian rules footballer
Amber Welty, American former track and field athlete
Amber Whiting, American college basketball coach
Amber Wutich, American anthropologist and professor
Amber Yobech, Palauan swimmer
Amber Zhaoyang Wang, Chinese high fashion model