as a Last Name
- 33,438
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Barlow
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of several places called Barlow, especially those in Lancashire and West Yorkshire. The former is named with Old English bere ‘barley’ + hlāw ‘hill’; the latter probably has as its first element the derived adjective beren or the compound bere-ærn ‘barn’. There is also a place of this name in Derbyshire, named with Old English bār ‘boar’ or bere ‘barley’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, and one in Shropshire, which is from bere ‘barley’ + lēah.
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 33,438
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Barlow per capita
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