American Family Name Origins:
D'Ambrosia
Frequency: (242)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: altered form of D’Ambrosio, possibly under the influence of the vocabulary word ambrosia, denoting the food of the gods in classical mythology.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 10%. Salvatore (2), Angelo.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
