Origin and popularity of the name AMOR

Origin

Amor : 1: Spanish and Portuguese: nickname from amor ‘love’ used to denote an illegitimate child and also a philanderer.2: Spanish Portuguese and French: from the medieval personal name Amor (from Latin amor ‘love’) which was popular in Spain Italy and France. See also Amour 2.3: English: variant of Amour.4: Muslim (Maghreb) and Jewish (from Maghreb): variant of Amour 4.

Amour : 1: English and French: nickname from Old French amour (from Latin amor) ‘love; beloved sweetheart’.2: French: from the medieval personal name Amour from Latin Amor 2. 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.3: English (of Norman origin): variant of Amer and Amar.4: 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 4.5: Muslim: possibly also from a French-influenced variant of the Arabic personal name Amūr ‘commanding’.

Blandamer : from Old French plein d'amor ‘full of love’ found as a surname in England in medieval sources. Compare Fullalove. The form with B- is characteristically Dorset and may have been influenced by the Dorset place-name Blandford.

D'Amore : Italian: patronymic from the personal name Amore meaning ‘love’. D'Amore sometimes denoted a foundling or an illegitimate son a ‘love child’.

Fenimore : English: variant of Finnemore a nickname from Old French fin ‘fine splendid’ + amour ‘love’ (from Latin amor).

Fullalove : from Middle English ful of love ‘full of love’. Compare the Old French equivalent plein d'amor ‘full of love’ found as a surname in England in medieval sources: Richard Playndeamurs 1284 in Jönsjö Nicknames (Lancs); John Playndamur 1327 in Jönsjö Nicknames (Yorks) for which see Blandamer.

Fullilove : English: variant of Fullalove from Middle English ful of love ‘full of love’. Compare the Old French equivalent plein d'amor ‘full of love’ found as a surname in England in medieval sources: Richard Playndeamurs 1284 (Lancashire); John Playndamur 1327 (Yorkshire).

Lamoureux : French:: 1: nickname for a kind amiable warm-hearted man Old French amoureux (from Latin amorosus a derivative of amor ‘love’) with fused definite article l'.2: possibly also a habitational name from any of the two hamlets in Indre called Les Amoureux. Compare Lamoreaux Lamoree Lamoreux and Lamoureaux.

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