Scottish (Fife) and English: occupational name for someone who
harrowed cultivated land, perhaps someone who did this as a feudal
service on manorial land, from an agent derivative of Middle English
harwen ‘to rake’ (of Scandinavian origin).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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