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arrow Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Arrow in Warwickshire or Arrowe in Cheshire. The first takes its name from the Arrow river, a Celtic or pre-Celtic term meaning ‘stream’; the second, recorded c. 1245 as Arwe, is from Old Norse erg ‘shieling’.
  2. Perhaps in some cases a translation of French La Flèche (‘the arrow’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of arrow Families in the US in 1920
Number of arrow families
 8-13
 3-7		 1-2
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