as a Last Name
- 12,975
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Harlow
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. habitational name from any of various places called Harlow. One in West Yorkshire is probably named from Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’ + hlāw ‘mound’, ‘hill’; those in Essex and Northumberland have Old English here ‘army’ as the first element, perhaps in the sense ‘host’, ‘assembly’. 2. There is also a record of this name as a variant of Cornish Penhollow.
| 2,799th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,975
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Harlow per capita
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