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Meaning & History
Means "my people" in Hebrew, from עַם (ʿam) meaning "people, nation, kinsman" with the suffix י (i) "my". This is the name of a character in the Old Testament, the prophet Hosea's second son, who was originally named Lo-Ammi meaning "not my people" but was renamed Ammi "my people". (Also compare Lo-Ruhamah and Ruhamah, the names of his sister.) This was also the name of a 3rd-century Talmudic sage.