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The rowe Surname

rowe Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses built next to one another, from Middle English row (northern Middle English raw, from Old English raw).
  2. from the medieval personal name Row, a variant of Rou(l) (see Rollo, Rolf) or a short form of Rowland.
  3. English name adopted by bearers of French Baillargeon.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rowe Families in the US in 1920
Number of rowe families
 417-831
 140-416
 1-139
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