Entry № 2936 · English origin

Ember Ember — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EM-ber /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Glowing coal, spark"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "glowing coal, spark".

Ember comes straight from the English word for a small, glowing piece of a dying fire — the warm coal that holds its heat long after the flames are gone.

Parents are drawn to the image it conjures: a hearth, a banked fire, a light that endures.

Ember pairs a vintage-feeling softness with a distinctly contemporary edge, which is much of its charm.

A glowing coal — warm, quiet and alive.

The name in its native script.

Ember
Transliteration
Ember
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛm.bər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ember stands.

Ember does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Embers before her.

Real people
Ember Reichgott Junge
American politician.
born 1953
In fiction
Ember Lumen
Heroine of Pixar's Elemental.
2023 film

Names connected to Ember.

The number behind Ember.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ember reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.