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Meaning & Origins
Anglicized form of Old French Amee ‘beloved’. This originated in part as a vernacular nickname, in part as a form of Latin Amata. The latter is ostensibly the feminine form of the past participle of amare ‘to love’, but in fact it may have had a different, pre-Roman, origin; it was borne in classical mythology by the wife of King Latinus, whose daughter Lavinia married Aeneas and (according to the story in the Aeneid) became the mother of the Roman people.
| 50th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English: one of the most common and widespread of English surnames, either a nickname for someone who was fond of dressing in this color (Old English grēne) or who had played the part of the ‘Green Man’ in the May Day celebrations, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a village green, Middle English grene (a transferred use of the color term). In North America this name has no doubt assimilated cognates from other European languages, notably German Grün (see Gruen).
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Nicknames & variations
Amie, Ami, Amee, Am, Ammie, Amiee, Ama, Amey, Amaya, Amye
Greene, Greer, Greenwood, Greenberg, Greenfield, Greenlee, Greenwald, Greenwell, Greenway, Greenleaf
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