When I was 17 weeks pregnant, I found out I was expecting my fifth boy and that he had a faulty kidney. Through the next 21 weeks, I grew to love the baby I was so close to losing, that Amyas was the only name that felt right: LOVED.
A famous bearer of this name is Amyas Godfrey, a child actor on the Classic Nickelodeon show "You Can't Do That On Television". The name on the show was pronounced "Amy-us".
In Agatha Christie's "Five Little Pigs" (a Hercule Poirot mystery), the victim's name is Amyas Crale. The television show "Poirot" used the story (and character names) for one episode.