Ames B Brown

Via Anscestry.co, entered Synedent Brown and got the following info:

From the 1860 United States Federal Census:

James Brown 54
Ames B Brown 48
Jessie Brown 15
Angelica Brown 18
Synedent Brown 10
Thomas Moody 80.

Could James have been born in 1806?
Could Agnes have gone by Ames?