mother maden name?

Question

ames

Answer 1

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,
Ames
English: from the Old French and Middle English personal name Amys, Amice, which is either directly from Latin amicus ‘friend’, used as a personal name, or via a Late Latin derivative of this, Amicius.
German: of uncertain origin. Perhaps a nickname for an active person, from a Germanic word related to Old High German amazzig ‘busy’. Compare modern German Ameise ‘ant’.
hope this helps.

Answer 2

You really didn't say what you wanted regarding Ames

Ancestry.Com shows it is

English from the Old French and Middle English personal name Amys, Amice which is either directly from the Latin amicus 'friend'

German of uncertain origin, perhaps a nickname for an active person.

Rootsweb(free site) has almost 70,000 entries in family trees for Ames. Just pull up the site and put Ames or a complete name in the World Connect block. Once you see the trees, if you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will take you to a screen that will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The info is user submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters, a lot of people copy without verifying.

Answer 3

I would think that noone should provide this information.