Amber en · PROPN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- ăm'bər (US)
- /ˈæm.bɚ/ (US)
- /ˈæm.bə/ (UK)
Etymology
From amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”).
Meanings
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A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
The youngest daughter of the Marchioness of Summerdown had one of these quaint, pretty names - Amber! - and what a pretty creature she was!
1854 Harper's Magazine, Volume IX, June to November 1854, page 667 ("Lady Amber Mayne")And then she said softly, "Sarah - I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes - "
1944, Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber, Chicago Review Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 14:A bit raddled, maybe thirty, maybe older, tanned like a hitchhiker, dressed like a road protester, one of those older women still determinedly being a girl; all those eighties feministy still-political women were terribly interested in what Eve did. Hippie name. Amber. Ridiculous name.
2005, Ali Smith, The Accidental, Penguin, published 2006, →ISBN, page 64:
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A surname of uncertain origin.
Amber, the half, generally waltzed round our forwards, and when he secured he passed the ball on to Aspinall.
1901, Frederick Swainson, Acton's Feud: A Public School Story, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2007, →ISBN, page 14:
Deriveds
Translations (7)
de Amber (female given name) · it Ambra (female given name) · mr अँबर (female given name) · nl Amber (female given name) · fr Ambre (female given name) · ja アンバー (female given name) · lv Dzintra (female given name)