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| meaning = Ruler of the Amali

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| language = Gothic

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| variant forms = Americ

| related names = Almerich

| cognate = Emeric

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Amalric or Amalaric (also Americ, Almerich, Emerich, Emeric, Emerick, Emerik and other variations) is a personal name derived from the tribal name Amal (referring to the Gothic Amali) and ric (Gothic reiks) meaning "ruler, prince".

Equivalents in different languages include:

French: Amaury (surname/given name), Amalric (surname), Amaurich (surname), Maury (surname)
German: Amalrich, Emmerich
Italian: Amerigo, Arrigo
Hungarian: Imre
Latin: Amalricus, Americus, Almericus, Emericus
Greek: Έμέρικος (Emérikos)
Polish: Amalaryk, Amalryk, Emeryk
Dutch: Emmerik, Amerik, Hamelink, Hamelryck
Portuguese: Amáuri, Américo
Spanish: Amauri, Américo
Serbo-Croatian: Emerik/Емерик
Arabic: عَمُورِي (ʻAmūrī)

Given name

Amalaric (502–531), King of the Visigoths from 526 to 531
Malaric (fl. 585), King of the Suevi
Amaury, Count of Valenciennes (fl. 953–973)
Amalric of Nesle (fl. 1151–1180), Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1158 to 1180
Amalric, King of Jerusalem (1136–1174), King of Jerusalem from 1163 to 1174
Aimery of Cyprus (bef. 1155–1205), King of Jerusalem from 1198 to 1205, Lord of Cyprus from 1194 to 1196 and King of Cyprus from 1196 to 1205
Amalric of Bena (fl. 1200–1204), French theologian
Arnaud Amalric (fl. 1196–1225), seventeenth abbot of Citeaux
Amaury de Montfort, several individuals including:
Amaury de Montfort (died 1241) (1195–1241), crusader
Amalric, Lord of Tyre (c. 1272–1310), Governor of Cyprus from 1306 to 1310
Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512), Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived.
Louis Marie Jacques Amalric de Narbonne-Lara (1755–1813), vicomte de Narbonne-Lara, French nobleman, soldier and diplomat

Surname

Arnaud Amalric (died 1225), Cistercian abbot
Catherine Amalric (born 1964), French politician
Mathieu Amalric (born 1965), French actor and director
Leonid Amalrik (1905–1997), Soviet animator
Andrei Amalrik (1938–1980), Soviet dissident

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