Ames Family History
Ames Name Meaning
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.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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Name Distribution of Ames Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ames families
 234 - 466  79 - 233 |
 1 - 78  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ames families
|
294 - 586 99 - 293 |
1 - 98 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ames families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ames Family Origin
Ames Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Ames
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Ames Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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