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mower Name Meaning and History

  1. English (East Anglia, chiefly Norfolk): occupational name for someone who mowed pasture lands to provide hay, from an agent derivative of Middle English mow(en) ‘mow’ (Old English mawen).
  2. Welsh: nickname from mawr ‘big’ (see Moore 6).
  3. German (Möwer): nickname from an agent derivative of Middle High German moven ‘to torment, trouble, or burden’.

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Distribution of mower Families in the US in 1840
Number of mower families
 15-28
 6-14
 1-5
 0
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