Amity Name Meaning & Origin
Amity
Origin of the name Amity:
Derived from the Middle English amite (friendship), which has its root in the Latin amicus (friend).
From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
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The Amity are a faction in the "Divergent" series which is being translated to film, the first to release in 2014. This may bring some more (positive?) attention to the name.
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Whenever I hear this, I only think of the Amityville Horror House.
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It's also the name of the city terrorized by the shark in Jaws. I think it's a great geographical name and reminds me of the Puritan era.- Personal experiences with the name Amity
Amity's are inteligent people, caring, free spirited, and loving creatures.
- Nicknames for Amity
Ammo
Am
Calamity
Mimi
Mit/ Mitty/ Mits- Meanings and history of the name Amity
Also means "concord" or "harmony" - synonymous with "cordiality"
- Famous real-life people named Amity
Amity Shlaes, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and prolific economic writer
Amity Dry, Australian T.V personality.- Amity in song, story & screen
"Amity", song by Elliott Smith
"AmityVille" song by Eminem
"Amityville Horror" Horror Film based on true events about a boy who murdered his family as they slept, in the town of Amityville U.S.A.