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ambrose Name Meaning and History

English: from the English form of the medieval personal name, Latin Ambrosius, from Greek ambrosios ‘immortal’, which was popular throughout Christendom in medieval Europe. Its popularity was due in part to the fame of St. Ambrose (c.340–397), one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church, the teacher of St. Augustine. In North America this surname has absorbed Dutch Ambroos and probably other cognates from other European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The ambrose name in History

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Distribution of ambrose Families in the US in 1920
Number of ambrose families
 136-269
 46-135		 1-45
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Threads: 311 - Messages: 693
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MATHIAS AMBROSE/PIERRE D'AMBOISE Sandy Ambrose 3
Ambrose_Stevens Pt., WI RCSnyder2 0
AMBROSEs from London & Cambridgeshire dianaford36 6
Isaac Ambrose - England Sharon Butcher 7
Charles H. Ambrose, born 1922 in Maine falconett 2
Peter Ambrose; John W Ambrose; Williamson Co. Tenn Audrey Stewart 10
Glouchester Virginia valibra 0
Homer Ambrose of Vermont kyleambrose1 2
Homer E. Ambrose of Vermont kyleambrose1 0
Murder of John Ambrose danetterobinette1 2
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