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amor Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish and Portuguese: from Spanish and Portuguese amor ‘love’, used to denote an illegitimate child, also as a nickname for a philanderer.
  2. Spanish, Portuguese, and English: from the medieval personal name Amor (Latin amor ‘love’), which was popular in Spain, Italy, and France, and introduced into England by the Normans. There was a St. Amor, of obscure history and unknown date, whose relics were preserved and venerated at the village of St. Amour in Burgundy.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the amor family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of amor Families in the US in 1920
Number of amor families
 9-15
 4-8		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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