as a Last Name
- 16,350
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Burrows
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, Old English beorg, a cognate of Old High German berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (see Berg). This name has become confused with derivatives of Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke). Reaney suggests a further derivation from Old English būr ‘bower’ + hūs ‘house’.
| 1,915th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,350
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Burrows per capita
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