Given name · also Latin
Amós
Amós is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Portuguese.
Original Hebrewעמוס
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Amós comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Amós developed from עמוס.
Amós’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Amós developed from the Hebrew form עמוס. In Portuguese usage, Amós has a conventional equivalent in the German form Amos. In Portuguese usage, Amós was borrowed from the Latin form Amos.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Amós has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
Hebrewwhere Amós comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amós
- Amós Aceropolitician from Spain (1893-1941)
- Amós Salvador RodrigáñezSpanish politician1845–1922
- Amos of Jerusalempatriarch of Jerusalem550
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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