Amey
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Frequency: (673)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: 1. from the Old French personal name Amé, Latin Amatus ‘beloved’, a personal name favored by the early Christians, who used it in the sense ‘beloved by God’. 2. possibly a derivative of Old French ami ‘friend’.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
Dictionary of American Family Names. Copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks. All rights reserved.
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