from the Old French personal name Amé, Latin
Amatus ‘beloved’, a personal name favored by the early
Christians, who used it in the sense ‘beloved by God’.possibly a
derivative of Old French ami ‘friend’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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