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barrow Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative bear(o)we, bearuwe), for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
  2. topographic name for someone who lived by an ancient burial mound, Middle English berwe, barwe, or a habitational name from a place named with this word (Old English beorg, dative beorge), of which there is one near Leicester and another in Somerset.
  3. habitational name from Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, which is named with an unattested Celtic word, barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey ‘island’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barrow Families in the US in 1920
Number of barrow families
 103-204
 35-102		 1-34
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Barrow Jeannette 4
Dr John & Dr John George Barrow - Middlesex mamk94 2
Laurence Barrow Steve Barrow 2
Clyde Barrow Sandy Seibert 27
Henry Barrow Kimberly 3
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John H. Barrow Walt Broughton 9
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