Save Type Surname Usage Basque Meaning & History Spanish: habitational name, from the name of a mountain and an ancient city in the province of Burgos, probably derived from Basque amai ‘end’ + the article suffix -a.
Save Type Surname (from location) Usage Japanese Scripts 天谷(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. /a̠.ma̠.ja̠/ [key·simplify] Meaning & History From Japanese 天 (ama) meaning "heaven" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".