Amber (name)
Amber is a Persian name for girls that means “ambergris”, a fragrant material extracted from a type of whale. Amber is also an English word referring to a precious material used in jewelry making, which is made up of fossilized tree resin. Both the Persian and the English names are originally derived from the Arabic word Anbar, which has the meaning of “ambergris” like the Persian name.
 Amber is used to make jewelry, which has helped inspire that name. | |
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Persian |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | "amber" |
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.[1]
Amber has been a popular name in most English speaking countries. It was the 20th most popular name in the U.S. in the 1990s.[2] It has ranked among the top 50 names for girls in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Australia and Canada in recent years.[3]
People
- Amber (performer) (born 1969), a pop music/dance music performer and singer
- Amber, a stage name for the J-pop music artist Rie Eto
- Amber Aguirre (born 1958), American ceramic sculptor
- Amber Benson (born 1977), American actress
- Amber Bondin (born 1991), Maltese singer
- Amber Campisi, American model, Playmate of the month for February 2005
- Amber Corwin (born 1978), American figure skater
- Amber Frey, the mistress of convicted murderer Scott Peterson
- Amber Hagerman (1986–1996), American murder victim, after whom the AMBER Alert was named
- Amber Heard (born 1986), American actress
- Amber Hikes, American civil rights activist
- Amber Joseph (born 1999), Barbadian cyclist
- Amber Littlejohn (born 1975), Native American professional figure competitor
- Amber Liu (born 1992), Taiwanese-American singer who is a member of f(x)
- Amber Lynn (born 1964), American pornographic actress
- Amber MacArthur (born 1976), Canadian internet and television personality
- Amber Mariano (born 1978), née Brkich, a participant in the reality TV show Survivor on the Australian Outback and All-Stars seasons
- Amber Merritt (born 1993), Australian wheelchair basketball player
- Amber Portwood (born 1990), American reality television personality and criminal
- Amber Rayne (1984–2016), American pornographic actress
- Amber Riley (born 1986), American actress, most famous for her role on the television series Glee as Mercedes
- Amber Rose (born 1983), American model
- Amber Rudd MP (born 1963), former UK Home Secretary
- Amber Scorah, Canadian-American writer, speaker, and activist
- Amber Scott, Australian ballet dancer
- Amber Louise Shepherd, an Australian singer
- Amber Tamblyn (born 1983), American actress
- Amber Valletta (born 1974), American actress and model
Fictional characters
- Amber, a major recurring character in television series Andi Mack
- Amber, a playable character from the mobile game Brawl Stars.
- Amber, a character from Clueless
- Amber, a character from the anime series Darker than Black
- Amber, a character in the television series Hannah Montana
- Amber is one of three identities of the Fool, who appears only in The Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb
- Amber, a deceased minor character in the Pokémon franchise
- Amber the Orange Fairy, a character from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
- Amber, a character from the video game Rune Factory 4
- Amber (The One-Legged Hypoglycemic), a recurring Saturday Night Live character played by Amy Poehler
- Amber, a dog from Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
- Princess Amber from Sofia the First
- Amber, a fictional character from the television series The Tribe (1999–2003)
- Amber Gates, a character from the British television series Footballers' Wives from its third series
- Amber Lamont, main character in the book Demon Road
- Amber Millington, from House of Anubis
- Amber Moore, a character on the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless (2006–2010)
- Amber Pigal-Simpson, the illegal wife of Homer Simpson
- Amber Rhodes, a character from the American TV sitcom Married... with Children
- Amber Snoeckx, a recurring character from the Belgian series wtFOCK.
- Amber St. Clare, a Forever Amber character
- Amber Volakis, a character from the television series House
- Amber Von Tussle, a character from Hairspray
- Amber Whitmire, an antagonistic character in 1995's Casper (film)
- Amber Williams, main character in the horror film I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
Literature
- Amber Brown (series), a character in a book by Paula Danziger
- Amber House, a 2012 novel in a trilogy by Kelly Moore and daughters Tucker Reed and Larkin Reed
- The Chronicles of Amber, a fantasy novel series written by Roger Zelazny
- Forever Amber, a novel by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, and a film in 1947
Notes
- Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Amber". Behind the Name.
- "Top names of the 1990s". 24 May 2017. Archived from the original on 24 May 2017.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- Campbell, Mike. "Popularity for the name Amber". Behind the Name.
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