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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian and Swedish (Åmot) : topographic name for someone who lived by the confluence of two streams, from aa, å ‘stream’ + mot ‘meeting’. This is also a common habitational name in Norway, from any of the 40 or more farms so named.

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