The AMBROSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,697	1992	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	2,816	2169	0.006	56
Change since 1880	+13881	+177	0	+6
Other Countries
Australia	917	1790	0.006	56
United Kingdom	3,737	1672	0.008	81

Top States for AMBROSE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,330	1039	0.011	108
California	1,269	2495	0.004	37
New York	1,158	1577	0.006	61
Florida	1,143	1813	0.007	72
Illinois	749	1697	0.006	60
Top States for AMBROSE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	164	1492	0.013	129
Delaware	85	1670	0.011	108
Pennsylvania	1,330	1039	0.011	108
Virginia	735	1261	0.010	104
Washington DC	56	1105	0.010	98

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called AMBROSE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called AMBROSE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called AMBROSE in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a AMBROSE by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of AMBROSE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the AMBROSE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the AMBROSE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of AMBROSE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	297	1.78
Mixed Race	199	1.19
Asian/Pacific	179	1.07
Native American/Alaskan	145	0.87
White (Caucasian)	13,919	83.36
Black/African American	1,959	11.73

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the AMBROSE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to AMBROSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AMBROSE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.