Amor Family History
- Amor Name Meaning
- Spanish and Portuguese: from Spanish and Portuguese amor ‘love’, used to denote an illegitimate child, also as a nickname for a philanderer. Spanish, Portuguese, and English: from the medieval personal name Amor (Latin amor ‘love’), which was popular in Spain, Italy, and France, and introduced into England by the Normans. There was a St. Amor, of obscure history and unknown date, whose relics were preserved and venerated at the village of St. Amour in Burgundy.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 159,313 Historical Documents with Amor on Ancestry
- 49,956 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 27,484 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,747 Military Records
- 3,792 Immigration Records
- 75,334 Member Trees
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Number of Amor families
 101 - 199  34 - 100 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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