MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ambe mean?
Ambe is the Sanskrit vocative of amba, mother. Devotional songs use Ambe to address the goddess directly, especially Durga.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अम्बे
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ambe in Indian usage
1,301 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 949 records (72.9%).
- Recorded as male: 352 records (27.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 145 |
| 1970s | 231 |
| 1980s | 395 |
| 1990s | 398 |
| Other decades | 132 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 513 |
| Bihar | 380 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 148 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 101 |
| Other states | 159 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, ambā, p. 83,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.