American Family Name Origins:
D'Amore
Frequency: (1141)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: patronymic from the personal name Amore, meaning ‘love’. D’Amore sometimes denoted a foundling or an illegitimate son, a ‘love child’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 16%. Salvatore (7), Angelo (5), Vito (5), Pasquale (3), Dante (2), Donato (2), Enrico (2), Luigi (2), Natale (2), Nunzio (2), Alfonse, Antonino.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
