What Does My Name Amber Mean?

Derived from the Old French and Latin from Arabic ‘Ambar’, ‘Amber’ is the English name for the semi-precious gem made from fossilized tree resin. The name is also used to describe its golden colour. In Hindi the name is derived from Sanskrit, meaning ‘the sky’. The name Amber became very popular in baby girls in the 1960s due to the Kathleen Winson novel and film ‘Forever Amber’. In 1990 the name was the 139th most popular name for women and 41,489th popular as a surname. Since, the name has decreased in popularity and is most commonly found in Scotland followed England and Australia.

Amber, the semi-precious gem, has been admired for its colour and natural organic beauty since Neolithic times. It has been used as an ingredient in perfumes as well as a healing agent in folk medicine and in jewellery. Amber is classified in five different ways dependent on the basis of their chemical constituents, Classes I, II, III, IV, V. Due to the fact that the gem originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, often the gem contains come animal and plant material as inclusions. Amber that is found occurring in coal seams is also called resinite. The term ambrite is applied to the gem that is found specifically within New Zealand coal seams. Amber has been used jewellery for over 13,000 years and Amber ornaments have been found in Mycenaean tombs. Today the gem is still used to manufacture smoking and glass mouthpieces. Evidence has been found that extracts of Amber were used for medicinal purposes as far back as the Ancient Greeks until as recently as the late 20th century. Oil of Amber can be produced by heating the gem at the correct temperature. This oil has been used to create both musks and perfumes throughout history.

My name amber means inspirational talented unique and smart

Amber is an Arabic name which reflects the yellow-brown gemstone of Amber, and means "precious jewel".

"A girls' name meaning -gorgeous and golden, a semi-precious stone"50, 001 best Baby names by Diane Stafford

My name is amber and I really like it I think its a wonderful name especialy if its named after a colour and a gem stone someone told me that the sap of a tree is called amber and that its gos hard and turns in to stone ( with a bug inside it )

It means beauty and smart tricky

"A girls' name meaning -gorgeous and golden, a semi-precious stone"

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In arabic it means "protector" or "healer" I have looked it up many times because my name is also amber. In old english it means "precious stone"

My name is amber and to me it mean joyfull dramatic loving and often socialised

I think amber means emotional, beauty.

It means social jewel

Hi my name is amber and I live in Pakistan. In arabic my name means "the scent of wet mud (after rain). It also means a precious jewel. I love my name soooo much

It means its a beatiful
Jewelry  and a stone a brownish color thats what amber means

Amber comes from the dominican stone and it means dramatic, self-center and fun. Amber is a golden color or blue color.

The name Amber, pronounced as Am-ber means a fossilized resin, honey-yellow in color and generally translucent in nature that is highly valued as a precious stone and used in ornaments as pendants or sometimes as a ring stone. The word is of Arabic origin (Anbar). The name is also found in Hindi and the ancient Sanskrit language (Ambar); it signifies the sky. The name became popular after Kathleen Winsor's romantic novel Forever Amber featuring the story of Amber ST Clair which was later made in to a film of the same name.

Amber means beautifulA ND GOLDEN

My name is Amber and I love this name

Amber can mean a stone

I have a book that says what the name amber means and you r correct

Amber is a precious jewel. It also means fierce

I named my dog Amber because she is golden brown in color, but most of the other descriptions above also apply to her.  She is a crazy little puppy.

It means a type of tree sap

Amber means the blue wire that runs through your body. It keeps your digestive systems working properly and your jacket warm. This one girl did not havbe an amber wire in her body and had to wear inches of clothing. Many say amber is tree sap or precious jewel, but they are sadly misinformed. Amber is a helpful part of the body, but has many more bad things about it than good. For example, if your amber wire some how has contact with anything containing water, it will electrecute you. You know when you touch someone, or someone touches you, and you say 'ow! You shocked me!' This is in fact your amber wire having contact with water.

Hi my name is amber and I lock it