Save Gender Feminine Usage Hungarian (Rare), English (American, Archaic) Pronounced Pron. /ˈɒ.mɒ.rilː.ɒ/(Hungarian) [key·simplify] Meaning & History English and Hungarian Latinate form of Amaryllis, in the case of the Hungarian name, derived from Hungarian amarillisz "amaryllis". This name was also used throughout the United States in the 1800s.