American Family Name Origins:
D'Ambra
Frequency: (423)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: metronymic from the late medieval female personal name Ambra, from the word for ‘amber’, a derivative of Arabic ῾anbar.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 19%. Vito (10), Gennaro (4), Salvatore (3), Domenic (2), Sal (2), Angelo, Antonio, Carmine, Domenica, Mauro.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
