Girl name origins & meanings
- Greek : Eternal beauty
- Hindi : Immortal
Boy name origins & meanings
- Greek : Immortal
- Arabic : Moon
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- Italian (Sicily) : see Amaro.
- Arabic : variant ofAmar.
- Japanese : ‘surplus’, usually written with characters used phonetically. It appears to be a shortening of amaribe‘surplus doors’, a reference to the practice among census takers from ancient times up to the era of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1867) of listing households in groups of fifty; any households exceeding this number or a multiple of it were referred to as ‘surplus’. The surname is found chiefly in northeastern Japan.
