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[Opinions] Ambrose
I can't tell if I like this name, or not. I'm always on the fence with it. What do you think? Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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I love Ambrose! It’s cool to see it charting again after being absent for so many years but I really hope it doesn’t become too popular!It seems to lack good nicknames, Bo is the best one I can come up with but I also like Buster as a gp nn for it (even though Buster can be a nn for literally any name but I like specifically for Ambrose). Amby seems cute in theory but I’m not sold…
I love it, maybe mostly because I once had a dream that I named a son this. Such a satisfying name dream. I like how formal, tweedy and dusty it is, and I also like the idea of a boy called Amber (as a nickname). It's the perfect combination of tacky and gentle hippie for me.
I used to hate it. If it was said as "am-brohs" I could love it, but its "am-brahz." Its fancy, for sure, but not melodic. I would be interested in in seeing it used more, but I wouldn't recommend anyone to "snatch it up" per say, the way that I would other uncommon names.
I say it like "AM-broze".... I've never heard the second pronunciation either.
I've never heard it pronounced that second way, which is totally unintuitive for me...
I like it but I’m afraid it might be too pretentious.
I think that Ambrose is a strikingly handsome name.
I love Ambrose but would be surprised to meet one. Here it tends to be used more as a name for old, dusty university professors on tv.
I used to dislike it, now I find it very classy. I hope it keeps rising in popularity.
No. Not good; could be someone Bertie Wooster was at school with.
I can’t tell whether I like it either.
Ambrose seems too moody and formal for my taste. It's sort of bound to be spoken in its full form, since there are no obvious appealing nicknames - and the sound of it, the consonant cluster followed by the long vowel and zz, kinda forces one to say it a bit slowly and seriously.
It's maybe the sort of name where people tend to nickname the bearer by using his surname instead.
I have never met one. I think it would actually work okay on a real person. It could even be kinda sporty, in real life. Like Grover or Horatio. But I don't really *like* it.
Don't like it at all
I love it! It's dashing and even poncey, which makes its surge in popularity quite surprising.
Consider that it has "bro" in it. That might cut the poncey-ness pretty effectively. Like milk with cookies!