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outlaw Name Meaning and History

English: nickname from Middle English outlawe ‘outlaw’ (from Old Norse útlagi). (When a sentence of outlawry was passed on someone in the Middle Ages it meant that they no longer had the protection of the law.) According to Reaney and Wilson this was also occasionally used as a personal name; they cite the example of someone called Hutlage.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of outlaw Families in the US in 1920
Number of outlaw families
 92-182
 31-91		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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