The barlow Surname
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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