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lathrop Name Meaning and History

English: probably a variant of Lothrop. Alternatively, it may be a habitational name from Layerthorpe in York, which is named from Old Norse leirr ‘clay’ or leira ‘clayey place’ + þorp ‘outlying farmstead’.

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Distribution of lathrop Families in the US in 1920
Number of lathrop families
 98-194
 33-97
 1-32
 0
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