Amour Family History
Amour Name Meaning
English and French: nickname from Old French amour (from Latin amor) ‘love; beloved sweetheart’. French: from the medieval personal name Amour from Latin Amor There was a Saint Amor of obscure history and unknown date whose relics were preserved and venerated at the village of Saint Amour in Burgundy. Compare Damour . English (of Norman origin): variant of Amer and Amar . Muslim (mainly Algeria) and Jewish (mainly from Algeria): from a French-influenced variant of the Arabic personal name ʿAmmūr a regional derivative of Ammar or as a Muslim name only of Omar . Compare Amor Muslim: possibly also from a French-influenced variant of the Arabic personal name Amūr ‘commanding’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022