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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English and French: from a Germanic personal name, Emaurri, composed of the elements amja ‘busy’, ‘industrious’ + rīc ‘power’. The name was introduced into England from France by the Normans. There has been some confusion with Amory.
  2. This name is recorded in Quebec in 1674, having been taken there from Dordogne, France.