Amber (name)

Amber
Amber is used to make jewelry, which has helped inspire that name.
Gender	Female
Language(s)	Arabic
Origin
Meaning	"amber"

Amber is a feminine given name taken from amber, the fossilized tree resin that is often used in the making of jewelry. The word can also refer to a yellowish-orange color.^[1]

Amber has been a popular name in most English speaking countries. It was the 20th most popular name in the U.S. in the 1990s.^[2] It has ranked among the top 50 names for girls in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Australia and Canada in recent years.^[3]

People

• Amber Louise Shepherd, an Australian singer
• Amber (performer), a pop music/dance music performer and singer
• Amber, a stage name for the J-pop music artist Rie Eto
• Amber Benson, American actress
• Amber Bondin, Maltese singer.
• Amber Campisi, American model, Playmate of the month for February 2005.
• Amber Corwin, figure skater.
• Amber Frey, the mistress of convicted murderer Scott Peterson
• Amber Hagerman, American murder victim, after whom the AMBER Alert was named.
• Amber Heard, American actress.
• Amber Littlejohn, Native American professional figure competitor
• Amber Liu, Taiwanese-American singer who is a member of f(x)
• Amber Lynn, American pornographic actress
• Amber MacArthur, Canadian internet and television personality
• Amber Mariano, née Brkich, a participant in the reality TV show Survivor on the Australian Outback and All-Stars seasons
• Amber Merritt, Australian wheelchair basketball player
• Amber Rayne, American pornographic actress
• Amber Riley, American actress, most famous for her role on the television series Glee as Mercedes
• Amber Rose, American model
• Amber Rudd MP, former UK Home Secretary
• Amber Tamblyn, American actress
• Amber Valletta, American actress and model

Fictional characters

• Amber, a character in the television series Hannah Montana
• Amber, a deceased minor character in the Pokémon franchise
• Amber Pigal-Simpson, the illegal wife of Homer Simpson
• Amber (The One-Legged Hypoglycemic), a recurring Saturday Night Live character played by Amy Poehler
• Amber, a character from the anime series Darker than Black
• Amber, a fictional character from the television series The Tribe (1999–2003)
• Amber Volakis, a character from the television series House
• Amber is one of three identities of the Fool, who appears only in The Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb
• Amber Milligton, from House of Anubis
• Amber Moore, a character on the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless (2006–2010)
• Amber Gates, a character from the British television series Footballers' Wives from its third series
• Amber, a dog from Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
• Princess Amber from Sofia the First
• Amber Lamont, main character in the book Demon Road
• Amber Williams, main character in the horror film I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
• Amber St. Clare, a Forever Amber character
• The Chronicles of Amber, a fantasy novel series written by Roger Zelazny

Literature

• Forever Amber, a novel by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, and a film in 1947
• Amber Brown (series), a character in a book by Paula Danziger
• Amber House, a 2012 novel in a trilogy by Kelly Moore and daughters Tucker Reed and Larkin Reed

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