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harlow Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of various places called Harlow. One in West Yorkshire is probably named from Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’ + hlaw ‘mound’, ‘hill’; those in Essex and Northumberland have Old English here ‘army’ as the first element, perhaps in the sense ‘host’, ‘assembly’.
  2. There is also a record of this name as a variant of Cornish Penhollow.

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Distribution of harlow Families in the US in 1920
Number of harlow families
 147-292
 50-146		 1-49
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Threads: 295 - Messages: 837
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GEORGE WINFIELD HARLOW, PENNSYLVANIA Vicki Oeding 3
Harlow, Harpole decendant jsil129 0
Harvey Harlow, Indiana traelle 0
Harlow's of Sable River Liverpool, NS bstack1 12
Nova Scotia Harlow's Carol Stoddard Caulkins 3
JEAN HARLOW IN HOWARD HUGHES 1930 "HELL'S ANGEL'S MADDYDAWN1942 0
John M. and Maude M. Harlow Emmet Power 5
Richard F. Harlow of Louisa VA. jmoore2905 13
Christopher Harlow married Lucretia Clark in 1854 ILL Dot 4
Maine Harlows raharlow2 2
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