Ama Family History
Ama Name Meaning
Italian: perhaps from a short form of a personal name such as Amadeo . Japanese: found mostly in central Japan; often written 天 ‘heaven’ or 尼 ‘Buddhist nun’ but also phonetically as 阿間 阿磨 or 安満. West African (Nigeria): from the Igbo personal name Ama from a topographic term meaning literally ‘compound’ (i.e. the enclosure within which an Igbo residence stands).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022