Medieval English form of a Breton name that was probably related to the Irish name Muirgel. The Normans brought it to England from Brittany. In the modern era it was popularized by a character from Dinah Craik’s novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1856).
People with the name Amhlaidh have a deep inner desire to inspire others in a higher cause, and to share their own strongly held views on spiritual matters.
Diminutive of Hode. This is the name of Tevye’s second daughter in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964), based on late 19th-century stories by Sholem Aleichem.