Family name origins & meanings
- French : secondary surname, a nickname for an affectionate man or a philanderer, from Old French amoureux ‘loving’, ‘amorous’ (Latin amorosus, a derivative of amor ‘love’), with the the definite article l’.
- A bearer of this name is recorded in Longueil, Quebec, in 1664; another, from Poitou, was there by 1681.