Amos
Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met an Amos. The name is Hebrew, and at root it means "burden" or "load", the weight one carries.
Amos Pronunciation
Amos is pronounced AH-mos (/ˈamɔs/).
What Amos means
Where Amos comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Amos comes from Hebrew, built on a root that means to carry or to load. Read plainly, the name says burden, the weight a person takes up. Polish holds the same sense: dźwigający ciężary.
The oldest Amos on record is a prophet, a herdsman from Tekoa who left the Book of Amos in the Hebrew Bible. He stands among the twelve minor prophets. He tended sheep and dressed sycamore figs before he prophesied. The man tied to a load gave his name a fitting shape.
English speakers took up Amos through the Bible, and it has stayed a Jewish name in steady use. It carries no pet forms and no feminine twin. What you get is the plain root: to carry, to bear a load.
When Amos celebrates name day
Amos appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 31 March.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Amos
1 in 227087 men in Poland is named Amos. 94 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3576 among male names.
Amos as a middle name
Amos is a first name for 94 men in Poland and a middle name for another 38, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1294th, between Agustín (38) and Bertrand (38).
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#1292 Thang39
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#1293 Agustín38
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#1294 Amos38
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#1295 Bertrand38
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#1296 Bilal38