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Dictionary of
Family Names
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Origin and Etymology of the Surname AMES, AMIES,
AMIS, AMISS, AYMES.
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From
A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley,
A. Bardsley, 1901, and,
An Etymological
Dictionary of Family and Christian Names, by William Arthur, M. A.,
1857.
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AMES, AMIES, AMIS,
AMISS, AYMES. A
baptismal name meaning "the son of Amys," or "the son of
Amy," with the patronymic s. "Amye, Amy, propre
name: Amia": Prompt. Parv. The origin is the
same. But Amice or Amys seems to have become the popular English
form of the O.F. Aimée, just as Piers or Pearce came to represent the O.F.
Pierre. Perhaps the Latinized forms had something to do with it.
Amia,
Amicia, Amise, and Amisius all occur as personal names without surnames in the
Hundred Rolls, 1273.
In the United States the form is all but invariably Ames.
Amice or Ames continued as a girl's fontal name till the 16th century.
The family of Ames in the Register of St. Dionis
Backchurch is found as Amyes (p. 8), 1576; Ames and Ammes
(p. 130), 1690; and Amis (p. 22), 1627. In the Register of
St. Michael, Cornhill, the name is often found as Aymes. Arthur
has: (French)
From Amie, a
friend, beloved; or if from the Hebrew Amos, a burden. Some think
it is a contraction of Ambrose (which see). Amesbury in
England was originally Ambrosebury.
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