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yarrow Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place so called, named for the river on which it stands, one in the Border region of Scotland, the other in Lancashire, both named with Welsh garw ‘rough’.
  2. topographic name for someone who lived in a place overgrown with yarrow, Old English gearwe.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of yarrow Families in the US in 1920
Number of yarrow families
 7-12
 3-6		 1-2
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Yarrow surname Elliot Yarrow 5
Yarroll/Yarrow family of London sparklypinkstars 0
frederick bailey yarrow - london, england abt 1820 chris 1
Yarrow's in Co Durham sorrodale 0
Yarrow's of Hertfordshire alrees61 0
Ann Yarrow alyson_mcgarrigle 0
yarrow name in canada roger yarrow 19
Elizabeth Yarrow of Bristol, England Christine Mitchell 0
Samuel and Sarah Yarrow Shirley Kemp 1
Yarrows from Hants/Dorset monkeyhouse133 0
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