Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
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