Comments for AMBROSE:

An ancient Greek name, Ambrosia (f), Ambrosios (m). In Greek mythology, Ambrosia was a Hyad, daughter of Atlas and Pleione.

-- Damis  3/3/2005

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?) is an American author with this name.

-- savvy  6/29/2005

Saint Ambrose is the patron saint of beekeepers.

-- nomenphile  9/30/2005

Famous bearer: Ambrose Powell "A. P." Hill, Confederate Civil War general.

-- johnnyreb  2/1/2007

I prefer Ambrosia, (which I normally heard in the myths) for the nector (or sometimes food) of immortality and a name. I guess it's just because when I imagine what it's supposed to look like, it's always the classic nymph-like demi-goddesses on Olympus, serving the gods with goblets or fruit (or whatever the food/drink is), and since the servers are almost always women, I just associate it as a feminine name. A very beautiful one too, but Ambrose is a good name too.

-- Irish Pearl  2/24/2007

In Redwall the cellarhog is named Ambrose Spike.

-- Sparky221  4/9/2007

Pronounced AM-brohs, not AM-brohz.

-- leananshae  12/8/2007

Ambrose is the real name of Glitch (Alan Cumming)in the scifi miniseries "Tin Man".

-- ClementineFox7  12/12/2007

Ambrose sounds almost mythical to me ... "Immortal."

-- aeristella  1/18/2008

This name has always sounded feminine to me. It sounds like a combination of Amber and Rose, and the -rose ending makes the name sound feminine in the same way that Primrose is feminine. Well, I wouldn't use this old-fashioned male name on my daughter, especially because of the type of people who have had it, apart from maybe Ambrose Bierce.

-- slight night shiver  5/15/2008

Ambrose is very dignified.

-- gio2475  5/26/2008

In the television show Monk, Adrian Monk's reclusive brother is named Ambrose.

-- Anonymous User  12/3/2008

Ambrose Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was a Union General in the Civil War. The facial hair known as 'sideburns' was named for him.

-- unexpectedsandwiches  12/5/2008

Even given the sideburns association, I like this name. It's very classic and not overly masculine, but I don't find it feminine either. Good middle name if paired with something a little more modern, but could also work as a first name.

-- unexpectedsandwiches  12/5/2008

Ambrose is a character in Daphne du Maurier's novel, My Cousin Rachel.

-- Anonymous User  12/25/2008

I prefer the much older form "Ambrosius," which, incidentally, is a much more beautiful name than "Ambrose."

-- Anthroponomastics  5/28/2009

This is an underused name that is, however, growing in popularity with the more trend-setting baby-namers. Uncommon enough for many people to have not make a connection to it with religion, fortunately.

-- vomiting  5/29/2009

Ambrose is a character in Willa Cather's "My Ántonia".

-- Nisha  9/26/2009

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