Ames

Borrowed from English Ames.

Ames

1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Oakes Ames (1874-1950).

• Author query of the International Plant Names Index

• IPA^(key): /eɪmz/
• Rhymes: -eɪmz

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Ames (plural Ameses)

1. A surname.
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A female given name transferred from the surname.

• Ames room
• Ames trapezoid
• Ames window

• Translingual: Ames

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ames is the 24870^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1286 individuals. Ames is most common among White (86.1%%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ames”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34.
• Forebears

Ames

1. A diminutive of the female given name Amy
   • 2019, Jenn Gott, Who's Afraid of Amy Sinclair?:

     Brittany looked up, and Amy's arrival was finally noticed. “Hey, Ames,” Brittany said, waving from the corner of the couch.

• ASME, EMAS, MSAE, Mesa, Same, eams, mase, meas, meas., mesa, same, seam

Attested as Oliames in 1143;[1] as Oiames in 1145;[2] and as Ames and Oames in the 14th and 15th centuries. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈame̝s/

Ames m

1. A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
2. A parish of Ames, A Coruña, Galicia.

• Ames on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl