About the St-Amour surname
The surname St-Amour has a primarily toponymic formation. The structure of the surname suggests a locational or toponymic formation linked to a place, estate, or landscape feature. The surname may therefore originally have identified a person by place of origin, residence, or a feature of the landscape. The Saint, Sainte, St, or Ste construction in St-Amour places the surname among forms often associated with French place-names or devotional naming traditions. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “stamour”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Sin-ta-mour/sɛ̃tamuʁ/