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crow Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English crow, Old English crawa, applied as a nickname for someone with dark hair or a dark complexion or for someone thought to resemble the bird in some other way.
  2. Irish (Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Conchradha (see McEnroe).
  3. Irish: translation of any of various Gaelic names derived from fiach ‘raven’, ‘crow’ (see Fee).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of crow Families in the US in 1920
Number of crow families
 236-470
 79-235
 1-78
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