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barlow Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of several places called Barlow, especially those in Lancashire and West Yorkshire. The former is named with Old English bere ‘barley’ + hlaw ‘hill’; the latter probably has as its first element the derived adjective beren or the compound bere-ærn ‘barn’. There is also a place of this name in Derbyshire, named with Old English bar ‘boar’ or bere ‘barley’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’, and one in Shropshire, which is from bere ‘barley’ + leah.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barlow Families in the US in 1920
Number of barlow families
 183-363
 62-182		 1-61
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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