as a Last Name
- 3,230
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Lark
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. nickname for a merry person or an early riser, from Middle English lavero(c)k, lark (Old English lāwerce). It was perhaps also a metonymic occupational name for someone who netted the birds and sold them for the cooking pot. 2. from a medieval personal name, a byform of Lawrence, derived by back-formation from Larkin.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,230
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Lark per capita
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