SEARCH FOR A PERSONAL NAME Whats in a name - a survey of first names

Use * for one or more unknown letters
Use ~ before name for Soundex search
Search
Help
Search
History
Amita (F)>

Amita (female)

Derivative of:Amity (F)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

Modern English apparently derived from Amity from Latin "friendship".

In Latin amita means "maternal aunt" but this seems to us to be an unlikely derivation!