D'Amore
An Italian surname meaning “of love,” originally formed from the word for love or from a devotional name tied to Love as a personal or religious idea.
The #9,716 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 92,466 Americans shares it.
Etymology
D'Amore is an Italian surname built from the preposition d' meaning “of” and amore, “love.” It likely began as a name identifying someone “of Love,” either from a nickname, a devotional phrase, or a personal name such as Amore. In many Italian surnames, the apostrophe reflects the original contraction of di or de before a vowel.
History
The surname is found in Italy and in Italian diaspora communities, especially in the United States. In American records it is often written without the apostrophe as Damore. Because the form is transparent in Italian, it may have arisen independently in more than one place rather than from a single family line.
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Fun fact
Because the name literally contains the word for “love,” it is one of those surnames that reads almost like a phrase rather than a family name.