Family name origins & meanings
- Northern Irish (of Scottish or English origin) : most probably a patronymic from Ambrose, or possibly a variant of Emerson.
- Americanized form of Norwegian and Danish Ambrossen and Swedish Ambrosson, patronymics from Ambrose.
- Abraham Amberson is listed in MD court records in 1665–80. Subsequently the name is found among Irish Presbyterians in Amberson Valley, PA, in 1763. Scandinavian bearers of this name came to America in the mid 19th century.