Ambrose is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Ambrose is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1023 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,022 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ambrose.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Ambrose annualy. This means that there have been boys named Ambrose who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Ambrose have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Ambrose even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record at rank #219 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ambrose was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Ambrose has never been ranked higher than #219. In 2022, he rivaled the 670 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 366 boys named Ambrose were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Ambrose were born, there have been 34 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Ambrose has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Ambrose and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ambrose, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Butterfly
Rocket
Orange
Sun
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ambrose
Ambrose
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
B
R
O
S
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
M
B
R
O
S
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ambrose sounds like this:
