Loading your next page…
A name. A world of connections.
A given name in German
Hear the name
German
01 / Meaning & origin
Amalrich is recorded as a given name in Wiktionary.
Zusammensetzung aus den althochdeutschen Begriffen amal (Arbeit, Kampf) und rihhi (reich, mächtig)
02 / Across borders
Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.
The name atlas
4
countries in our sources
Select a country to follow Amalrich’s connections around the world.
0 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
4 of 4 countries
03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
No official statistics are imported for this spelling. No statistical dataset covering this spelling has been imported yet. See data coverage.
04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
AMALRICH— “work ruler”
The ladies have certainly been the chief owners of Amal, as a commencement; but it has had a brilliant part to play in the form of Amalrich, Almerich, or Emmerich, on the German side; Almerigo in Spain; Amalric, or Amaury, in France; Almerick in England. Amaury was an Angevin king of Jerusalem; and our own Sir Almerick St. Lawrence was brother-in-arms to Sir John de Courcy, and founded the House of Howth in Ireland. The House of Lusignan, Melusina’s descendants, called it…
The ladies have certainly been the chief owners of Amal, as a commencement; but it has had a brilliant part to play in the form of Amalrich, Almerich, or Emmerich, on the German side; Almerigo in Spain; Amalric, or Amaury, in France; Almerick in England. Amaury was an Angevin king of Jerusalem; and our own Sir Almerick St. Lawrence was brother-in-arms to Sir John de Courcy, and founded the House of Howth in Ireland. The House of Lusignan, Melusina’s descendants, called it Aymar; and in this form it came to England with Henry III.’s half-brother, whom he promoted to the see of Winchester, but who episcopally called himself Ethelmarus; though his nephew, Aymar de Valence, kept his proper name. Emmery is a surviving English surname, and Merica occurs in old Yorkshire genealogies.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section XVII (Amal) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
A little story to keep
Take the story of Amalrich with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.
06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
