as a Last Name
- 18,441
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Barrow
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative bear(o)we, bearuwe), for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same meaning. 2. topographic name for someone who lived by an ancient burial mound, Middle English berwe, barwe, or a habitational name from a place named with this word (Old English beorg, dative beorge), of which there is one near Leicester and another in Somerset. 3. habitational name from Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, which is named with an unattested Celtic word, barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey ‘island’.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,441
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Louisiana
- has the most people named Barrow per capita
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