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lark Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname for a merry person or an early riser, from Middle English lavero(c)k, lark (Old English lawerce). It was perhaps also a metonymic occupational name for someone who netted the birds and sold them for the cooking pot.
  2. from a medieval personal name, a byform of Lawrence, derived by back-formation from Larkin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lark Families in the US in 1920
Number of lark families
 27-51
 10-26		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 48 - Messages: 100
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LARKS FROM TAVISTOCK, DEVON WendyAnneLark 0
Lorn and Lillie LARK burial in Scott Co, VA knightsmace 0
Loren Lark Jackie Stanley 2
Lark Family Judy Youngblood 4
Lark - Nashville, TN liljqpj 1
Lark family in Boone Co., IA ppeakshadow 10
Mary A Lark Born Ormsby Norfolk UK Circa1823 shaunmontaguesimmons 0
Mary Peters Lark of Saint Louis, MO grs3275 0
FAMILY HISTORY rdaviesrose 0
obit fyi: Vivian Smith. (nee, Lark.) MargaretBumgarner 0
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