The harlow Surname
harlow Name Meaning and History
- 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’.
- There is also a record of this name as a variant of Cornish Penhollow.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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