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The ames Surname

ames Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Old French and Middle English personal name Amys, Amice, which is either directly from Latin amicus ‘friend’, used as a personal name, or via a Late Latin derivative of this, Amicius.
  2. German: of uncertain origin. Perhaps a nickname for an active person, from a Germanic word related to Old High German amazzig ‘busy’. Compare modern German Ameise ‘ant’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ames Families in the US in 1920
Number of ames families
 234-466
 79-233		 1-78
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