Ember

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ember, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Clover
• Autumn
• Aspen
• Briar
• Coral
• Fawn
• Meadow
• Cedar
• Dove
• Juniper
• Nova
• Garnet

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Ember is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In gmq-osw, reek, vapor

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Indonesian, bucket

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Ember Swiftb. 1970CACanadian musician
• Ember Reignsb. 1988USAmerican pornographic actress
• Ember Snowb. 1991USAmerican pornographic actress
• Ember Edwardsb. 2002ZASouth African association football player
• Ember OakleyUSWyoming politician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Is Ember a male or female name?

Ember is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024).

What does the name Ember mean, and where does it come from?

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How common is the name Ember?

In the United States, the national register counted 10,925 people named Ember in 2020, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.

What are other forms of the name Ember?

In the etymology graph, Emberly is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Ember?

A machine transcription gives /ɛmbɚ/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Ember have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Ember, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ember.

Where is Ember most common?

Ember is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.